Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990
PL 101-161 (H.R.2883), enacted 11/21/1989

PUBLIC LAW 101-161—NOV. 21, 1989 
103 STAT. 951 
Public Law 101-161 
101st Congress 
An Act 
Making appropriations for Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies 
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1990, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated, for Rural Development, Agriculture, and 
Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
1990, and for other purposes; namely: 
TITLE I—AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS 
PRODUCTION, PROCESSING AND MARKETING 
O F F I C E OF THE SECRETARY 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of Agri-
culture, and not to exceed $50,000 for emplo3rment under 5 U.S.C. 
3109, $1,789,000: Provided, That not to exceed $8,000 of this amount 
shall be available for ofQcial reception and representation expenses, 
not otherwise provided for, as determined by the Secretary. 
FARM AND EXPORT PROGRAMS 
For development of a plan by the Secretary for returning the use 
of the Commodity Credit Corporation to its primary function which 
was to buy and sell competitively to enable the farmer to offset high 
American costs and to maintain his fair share of world markets; and 
to restore the use of section 32 (30 per centum of customs receipts) as 
authorized by law, the use of which is presently suspended, to enable 
the farmer to secure his income from the user of his products rather 
than the U.S. Treasury and to enable the American farmer to regain 
and retain, by competitive sales, our normed share of world markets, 
$400,000. 
COMPILATION OF METHODS USED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO PROTECT 
THEIR DOMESTIC AGRICULTURE 
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and compile 
a listing of the laws and practices used by foreign countries to 
protect their domestic agriculture from foreign competition and to 
expand their foreign markets in order to assist the Department in 
regaining and retaining our fair share of world markets, $400,000. 
OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY SECRETARY 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Deputy Secretary of 
Agriculture, including not to exceed $25,000 for employment under 5 
U.S.C. 3109, $397,000: Provided, That not to exceed $3,000 of this 
amount shall be available for official reception and representation 
Nov. 21, 1989 
[H.R. 2883] 
Rural 
Development, 
Agriculture, and 
Related 
Agencies 
Appropriations 
Act, 1990. 
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expenses, not otherwise provided for, as determined by the Deputy 
Secretary, 
OPFICE OP BUDGET AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Budget and Program 
Analysis, including employment pursuant to the second sentence of 
section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not 
to exceed $5,000 is for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $4,554,000. 
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
Administration to carry out the programs funded in this Act, 
$470,000. 
RENTAL PAYMENTS (USDA) 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OP FUNDS) 
For payment of space rental and related costs pursuant to Public 
Law 92-313 for programs and activities of the Department of Agri-
culture which are included in this Act, $49,467,000, of which 
$3,000,000 shall be retained by the Department of Agriculture for 
non-recurring repairs as determined by the Department of Agri-
culture: Provided, That in the event an agency within the Depart-
ment of Agriculture should require modification of space needs, the 
Secretary of Agriculture may transfer a share of that agency's 
appropriation made available by this Act to this appropriation, or 
may transfer a share of this appropriation to that agency's appro-
priation, but such transfers shall not exceed 10 per centum of the 
funds made available for space rental and related costs to or from 
this account. 
BUILDING OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 
For the operation, maintenance, and repair of Agriculture build-
ings pursuant to the delegation of authority from the Administrator 
of General Services authorized by 40 U.S.C. 486, $23,033,000. 
ADVISORY COMMITTEES (USDA) 
For necessary expenses for activities of Advisory Committees of 
the Department of Agriculture which are included in this Act, 
$1,494,000: Provided, That no other funds appropriated to the 
Department of Agriculture in this Act shall be available to the 
Department of Agriculture for support of activities of Advisory 
Committees. 
HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OP FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Department of Agriculture, except 
for expenses of the Commodity Credit Corporation, to comply with 
the requirement of section 107g of the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended, 42 
U.S.C. 9607g, and section 6001 of the Resource Conservation and 
Recovery Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 6961, $20,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That appropriations and funds 
available herein to the Department of Agriculture for hazardous 
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103 STAT. 953 
waste management may be transferred to any agency of the Depart-
ment for its use in meeting all requirements pursuant to the above 
Acts on Federal and non-Federal lands. 
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For Personnel, Finance and Management, Operations, Informa-
tion Resources Management, Advocacy and Enterprise, 
and 
Administrative Law Judges and Judicial Officer, $22,020,000 and in 
addition, for payment of the USDA share of the Nationed Commu-
nications System, $2,000; making a total of $22,022,000 for Depart-
mental Administration to provide for necessary expenses for 
management support services to offices of the Department of Agri-
culture and for general administration and emergency preparedness 
of the Department of Agriculture, repairs and alterations, and other 
miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for and 
necessary for the practical and efficient work of the Department of 
Agriculture, including employment pursuant to the second sentence 
of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which 
not to exceed $10,000 is for emplojmient under 5 U.S.C. 3109: 
Provided, That this appropriation shall be reimbursed from ap-
plicable appropriations in this Act for travel expenses incident to 
the holding of hearings as required by 5 U.S.C. 551-558. 
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR GOVERNMENTAL AND 
PuBUC AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
Grovernmental and Public Affairs to carry out the programs funded 
in this Act, $414,000. 
PUBUC AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses to carry on services relating to the co-
ordination of programs involving public affairs, and for the dissemi-
nation of agricultural information and the coordination of informa-
tion, work and programs authorized by Congress in the Department, 
$7,964,000 including employment pursuant to the second sentence of 
section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not 
to exceed $10,000 shall be available for emplo3nnent under 5 U.S.C. 
3109, and not to exceed $2,000,000, may be used for farmers' bul-
letins and not fewer than two hundred thirty-two thousand two 
hundred and fifty copies for the use of the Senate and House of 
Representatives of part 2 of the annual report of the Secretary 
(known as the Yearbook of Agriculture) as authorized by 44 U.S.C. 
1301: Provided, That in the preparation of motion pictures or exhib-
its by the Department, this appropriation shall be available for 
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the 
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225). 
CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS 
For necessary expenses for liaison with the Congress on legislative 
matters, $542,000. 
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INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses for programs involving intergovernmental 
affairs and liaison within the executive branch, $479,000. 
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector General, 
including employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 
706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), $52,053,000, includ-
ing such sums as may be necessary for contracting and other 
arr£ingements with public agencies and private persons pursuant to 
section 6(aX8) of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-
452), and including a sum not to exceed $50,000 for employment 
under 5 U.S.C. 3109; and including a sum not to exceed $95,000 for 
^ 
certain confidential operational expenses including the payment of 
informants, to be expended under the direction of the Inspector 
General pursuant to Public Law 95-452 and section 1337 of Public 
Law 97-98. 
OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the General Counsel, 
$21,828,000. 
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMICS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
Economics to carry out the programs funded in this Act, $454,000. 
ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE 
For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Service in 
conducting economic research and service relating to agricultural 
production, marketing, and distribution, as authorized by the Agri 
cultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621-1627), and other laws, 
including economics of marketing; analyses relating to farm prices, 
income and population, and demand for farm products, use of 
resources in agriculture, adjustments, costs and returns in farming, 
and farm finance; research relating to the economic and marketing 
aspects of farmer cooperatives; and for analysis of supply and 
demand for farm products in foreign countries and their effect on 
prospects for United States exports, progress in economic develop-
ment and its relation to sales of farm products, assembly and 
analysis of agricultural trade statistics and analysis of international 
financial and monetary programs and policies as they affect the 
competitive position of United States fann products, $51,102,000; of 
which $500,000 shall be available for mvestigation, determination 
and finding as to the effect upon the production of food and upon the 
agricultural economy of any proposed action affecting such subject 
matter pending before the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency for presentation, in the public interest, before 
said Administrator, other agencies or before the courts: Provided, 
That this appropriation shall be available to continue to gather 
statistics and conduct a special study on the price spread between 
the farmer and the consumer: Provided further, That this appropria-
tion shall be available for emplojmient pursuant to the second 
sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225): 
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103 STAT. 955 
Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for 
analysis of statistics and related facts on foreign production eind full 
and complete information on methods used by other countries to 
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move farm commodities in world trade on a competitive bsisis. 
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE 
For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural Statistics 
Service in conducting statistical reporting and service work, includ-
ing crop and livestock estimates, statistical coordination and 
improvements, and marketing surveys, as authorized by the Agricul-
tural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621-1627) and other laws, 
$67,901,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for 
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the 
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $40,000 shall 
be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109. 
WORLD AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK BOARD 
For necessary expenses of the World Agricultural Outlook Board 
to coordinate and review all commodity and aggregate agricultural 
and food data used to develop outlook and situation material within 
the Department of Agriculture, as authorized by the Agricultural 
Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622g), $1,936,000: Provided, That 
this appropriation shall be available for emplo3rment pursuant to 
the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 
U.S.C. 2225). 
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Science and Education to administer the laws enacted 
by the CJongress for the Agricultural Research Service, Cooperative 
State Research Service, Extension Service, £ind National Agricul-
tural Library, $438,000. 
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to enable the Agricultural Research Serv-
ice to perform agricultural research and demonstration relating to 
production, utilization, marketing, and distribution (not otherwise 
provided for), home economics or nutrition and consumer use, and 
for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or purchase at a 
nominal cost not to exceed $100, $592,339,000: Provided, That appro-
priations hereunder shall be available for temporary employment 
pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act 
of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $115,000 shall be available 
for emplojnnent under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further. That funds 
appropriated herein can be used to provide financial assistance to 
the organizers of national and international conferences, if such 
conferences are in support of agency programs: Provided further. 
That appropriations hereunder shall be available for the operation 
7 USC 2254. 
and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed one 
for replacement only: Provided further. That uniform allowances for 
each uniformed employee of the Agricultural Research Service shall 
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not be in excess of $400 etnnually: Provided further. That appropria-
tions hereunder shall be available to conduct marketing research: 
7 use 2254. 
Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall be available 
pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for the construction, alteration, and repair 
of buildings and improvements, but unless otherwise provided the 
cost of constructing any one building shall not exceed $250,000, 
except for headhouses or greenhouses which shall each be limited to 
$750,000, and except for ten buildings to be constructed or improved 
at a cost not to exceed $450,000 each, and the cost of altering any 
one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 per centum of 
the current replacement value of the building or $250,000, which-
ever is greater: Provided further. That the limitations on alterations 
contained in this Act shall not apply to modernization or replace-
ment of existing facilities at Beltsville, Maryland: Provided further. 
That the foregoing limitations shall not apply to replacement of 
buildings needed to cari^ out the Act of April 24, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 
113a): Provided further. That the foregoing limitations on purchase 
of land shall not apply to the purchase of land at Corvallis, Oregon; 
Weslaco, Texas; and Kimberly, Idaho: Provided further. That not to 
exceed $190,000 of this appropriation maj^ be transferred to and 
merged with the appropriation for the Office of the Assistant Sec-
retary for Science and Education for the scientific review of inter-
national issues involving agricultural chemicals and food additives. 
Special fund: To provide for additional labor, subprofessional, and 
junior scientific help to be employed under contracts and coopera-
tive agreements to strengthen the work at Federal research installa-
tions in the field, $2,000,000. 
BUILDINGS AND FACIIJT{ES 
For acquisition of land, construction, repair, improvement, exten-
sion, alteration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities as 
necessary to carry out the agricultural research programs of the 
Department 
of Agriculture, 
where 
not 
otherwise 
provided, 
20 use 191 note. $10,675,000: Provided, That facilities to house Bonsai collections at 
the National Arboretum may be constructed with funds accepted 
under the provisions of Public Law 94-129 (20 U.S.C. 195) and the 
limitation on construction contained in the Act of August 24, 1912 
(40 U.S.C. 68) shall not apply to the construction of such facilities: 
Provided further. That funds recovered in satisfaction of judgment 
at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center shall be available and 
augment funds appropriated in a prior fiscal year for construction at 
Plum Island Animal Disease Center and be used for construction 
necessary to consolidate research and operations at the Center and 
for renovation of the Beltsville Agricultural Research CJenter. 
COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH SERVICE 
For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for cooperative 
forestry and other research, for facilities, and for other expenses, 
including $157,045,000 to carry into effect the provisions of the 
Hatch Act approved March 2, 1887, as amended, including adminis-
tration by the United States Department of Agriculture, and pen-
alty mail costs of agricultural experiment stations under section 6 of 
the Hatch Act of 1887, as amended, and payments under section 
1361(c) of the Act of October 3, 1980 (7 U.S.C. 301n.); $17,500,000 for 
grants for cooperative forestry research under the Act approved 
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103 STAT. 957 
October 10,1962 (16 U.S.C. 582a-582-a7), as amended by Public Law 
92-318 approved June 23, 1972, including administrative expenses, 
and payments under section 1361(c) of the Act of October 3, 1980 (7 
U.S.C. 301n.); $25,333,000 for payments to the 1890 land-grant col-
leges, including Tusk^ee University, for research under section 
1445 of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teach-
ing Policy Act of 1977 (Public Law 95-113), as amended, including 
administration by the United States Department of Agriculture, and 
penalty mail costs of the 1890 land-grant colleges including 
Tuskegee University; $56,543,000 for contracts and grants for agri-
cultural research under the Act of August 4, 1965, as amended (7 
U.S.C. 450i); $43,066,000 for competitive research grants including 
administrative expenses; $5,476,000 for the support of animal health 
and disease programs authorized by section 1433 of Public Law 95-
113, including administrative expenses; $325,000 for supplemental 
and alternative crops and products as authorized by the National 
.^ricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 
(7 U.S.C. 3319d); $5,368,000 for grants for research and construction 
of facilities to conduct research pursuant to the Critical Agricultural 
Materials Act of 1984 (7 U.S.C. 178); and section 1472 of the Food 
and Agricultural Act of 1977, as amended (7 U.S.C. 3318), to remain 
available until expended; $475,000 for rangelsmd research grants as 
authorized by subtitle M of the National Agricultural Research, 
Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977, as amended; $6,004,000 
for higher education grants under section 1417(a) of Public Law 95-
113, as amended (7 U.S.C. 3152(a)); $3,750,000 for grants as au-
thorized by section 1475 of the National Agricultural Research, 
Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 and other Acts; 
$3,152,000 for grants to States for the operation of international 
trade development centers, as authorized by the National Agricul-
tural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977, as 
amended (7 U.S.C. 3292); $4,450,000 for low-input agriculture as 
authorized by the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and 
Teachmg Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 4701-4710); and $13,507,000 for 
necessary expenses of (Cooperative State Research Service activities, 
including coordination and program leadership for higher education 
work of the Department, administration of pajonents to State agri-
cultural experiment stations, funds for employment pursuant to the 
second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 
2225), and not to exceed $100,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 
3109; in all, $341,994,000. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For acquisition of land, construction, repair, improvement, exten-
sion, alteration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities and for 
grants to States and other eligible recipients for such purposes, as 
necessary to carry out the agricultural research, extension and 
teaching programs of the Department of Agriculture, where not 
otherwise provided, $45,686,000. 
EXTENSION SERVICE 
Payments to States, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Mi-
cronesia, Northern Marianas and American Samoa: For pa3mients 
for cooperative agricultural extension work under the Smith-Lever 
Act, as amended, to be distributed under sections 3(b) and 3(c) of said 
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Act, for retirement and employees' compensation costs for extension 
agents and for costs of penalty mail for cooperative extension agents 
and State extension directors, $244,094,000; payments for the nutri-
tion and family education program for low-income areas under 
section 3(d) of the Act, $58,635,000; payments for the urban garden-
ing program under section 3(d) of the Act, $3,500,000; payments for 
the pest management program under section 3(d) of the Act, 
$7,164,000; payments for the farm safety program under section 3(d) 
of the Act, $970,000; pa3ntnents for the pesticide impact assessment 
program under section 3(d) of the Act, $2,580,000; grants to upgrade 
1890 land-grant college extension facilities as authorized by section 
1416 of Public Law 99-198, $9,508,000, to remain available until 
expended; payments for the rural development centers under sec-
tion 3(d) of the Act, $950,000; pajmients for extension work under 
section 209(c) of Public Law 93-471, $953,000; payments for a 
groundwater quality progrsim under section 3(d) of the Act, 
$5,250,000; payments for a financial management assistance pro-
gram under section 3(d) of the Act, $1,427,000; for specisd grants for 
financially stressed farmers and dislocated farmers as authorized by 
Public Law 100-219, $3,350,000; payments for carrying out the 
provisions of the Renewable Resource Extension Act of 1978 under 
3(d) of the Act, $2,765,000 and pajmients for extension work by the 
colleges receiving the benefits of the second Morrill Act (7 U.S.C. 
321-326, 328) and Tuskegee University, $22,000,000; in all, 
$363,146,000, of which not less than $79,400,000 is for Home Eco-
nomics: Provided, That funds hereby appropriated pursuant to sec-
tion 3(c) of the Act of June 26, 1953, and section 506 of the Act of 
June 23, 1972, as amended, shall not be paid to any State, Puerto 
Rico, Guam, or the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, Northern Marianas, 
£md American Samoa prior to availability of an equal sum from non-
Federal sources for expenditure during the current fiscal year. 
Federal administration and coordination: For administration of 
the Smith-Lever Act, as amended by the Act of June 26, 1953, the 
Act of August 11, 1955, the Act of October 5,1962, section 506 of the 
Act of June 23, 1972, section 209(d) of Public Law 93-471, and the 
Act of September 29, 1977 (7 U.S.C. 341-349), as amended, and 
section 1361(c) of the Act of October 3, 1980 (7 U.S.C. 301n.), and to 
coordinate and provide program leadership for the extension work 
of the Department and the several States and insular possessions, 
$8,811,000, of which not less than $2,300,000 is for Home Economics. 
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY 
For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural Library, 
$14,883,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for 
emplo3rment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the 
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $35,000 shall 
be available for emplo3anent under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further. 
That not to exceed $675,000 shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 
2250 for the alteration and repair of buildings and improvements: 
Provided further, That $385,000 shall be available for a grant pursu-
ant to section 1472 of the National Agricultural Research, Exten-
sion, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3818). 
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103 STAT. 959 
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR MARKETING AND 
INSPECTION SERVICES 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Marketing and Inspection Services to administer pro-
grams under the laws enacted by the Congress for the Animal and 
Plant Health Inspection Service, Food Safety and Inspection Serv-
ice, Federal Grain Inspection Service, Agricultural Cooperative 
Service, Agricultural Marketing Service (including Office of 
Transportation) and Packers and Stockyards 
Administration, 
$427,000. 
ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, including those pursu-
ant to the Act of February 28, 1947, as amended (21 U.S.C. 114b-c), 
necessary to prevent, control, and eradicate pests and plant and 
animal diseases; to carry out inspection, quarantine, and regulatory 
activities; to discharge the authorities of the Secretary of Agri-
culture under the Act of March 2, 1931 (46 Stat. 1468; 7 U.S.C. 426-
426b); and to protect the environment, as authorized by law, 
$352,182,000, of which $4,500,000 shall be available for the control of 
outbreaks of insects, plant diseases, animal diseases and for control 
of pest anim£ils and birds to the extent necessary to meet emergency 
conditions: Provided, That $1,000,000 of the funds for control of the 
fire ant shall be placed in reserve for matching purposes with States 
which may come into the program: Provided further, That no funds 
shall be used to formulate or administer a brucellosis eradication 
program for the current fiscal year that does not require minimum 
matching by the States of at least 40 per centum: Provided further. 
That this appropriation shall be available for field emplo3rment 
pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act 
of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $40,000 shall be available 
for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further. That this 
appropriation shall be available for the operation and maintenance 
of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed two, of which one shall 
be for replacement only: Provided further. That uniform allowances 
for each uniformed employee of the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service shall not be in excess of $400 annually: Provided 
further. That, in addition, in emergencies which threaten any seg- 21 USC 129. 
ment of the agricultural production industry of this country, the 
Secretary may transfer from other appropriations or funds available 
to the agencies or corporations of the Department such sums as he 
may deem necessary, to be available only in such emergencies for 
the arrest and eradication of contagious or infectious disease or 
pests of animals, poultry, or plants, and for expenses in accordance 
with the Act of February 28, 1947, as amended, and section 102 of 
the Act of September 21, 1944, as amended, and any unexpended 
balances of funds transferred for such emei^ency purposes in the 
next preceding fiscal year shall be merged with such transferred 
amounts. 
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BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For plans, construction, repair, improvement, extension, alter-
ation, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities, as authorized by 
7 U.S.C. 2250, and acquisition of land as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 428a, 
$13,422,000. 
FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE 
For necessary expenses to carry on services authorized by the 
Federal Meat Inspection Act, as amended, and the Poultry Products 
Inspection Act, as amended, $422,799,000: Provided, That this appro-
priation shall be available for field employment pursuant to section 
706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed 
$75,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: 
Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available pursu-
ant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alteration and repair of buildings 
and improvements, but the cost of altering any one building during 
the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 per centum of the current 
replacement value of the building. 
FEDERAL GRAIN INSPECTION SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the United 
States Grain Standards Act, as amended, and the standardization 
activities related to grain under the Agpricultural Marketing Act of 
1946, as amended, including field emplo3rment pursuant to section 
706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed 
$20,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $8,186,000: Provided, 
That this appropriation shall be available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 
2250) for the alteration and repair of buildings and improvements, 
but, unless otherwise provided, the cost of altering any one building 
during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 per centum of the current 
replacement value of the building: Provided further. That none of 
the funds provided by this Act may be used to pay the salaries of 
any person or persons who require, or who authorize pa}rments from 
fee-supported funds to any person or persons who require nonexpert, 
nonterminal interior elevators to maintain records not involving 
official inspection or official weighing in the United States under 
Public Law 94-582 other than those necessary to fulfill the purposes 
of such Act. 
INSPECTION AND WEIGHING SERVICES 
UMITATION ON INSPECTION AND WEIGHING SERVICES EXPENSES 
Not to exceed $36,856,000 (from fees collected) shall be obligated 
during the current fiscal year for Inspection and Weighing Services. 
AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE SERVICE 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Cooperative Marketing 
Act of July 2, 1926 (7 U.S.C. 451-457), and for activities relating to 
the marketing aspects of cooperatives, including economic research 
and analysis and the application of economic research findings, as 
authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 
1621-1627), and for activities with institutions or organizations 
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103 STAT. 961 
throughout the world concerning the development and operation of 
aericultural cooperatives (7 U.S.C. 3291), $4,714,000; of which 
^9,000 shall be available for a field office in Hawaii: Provided, That 
this appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to 
tiie second sentence of section 706(a) of the Oi^anic Act of 1944 (7 
U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $15,000 shall be available for employ-
ment under 5 U.S.C. 3109. 
AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE 
MARKETING SERVICES 
For necessary expenses to carry on services related to consumer 
protection, agricultural marketing and distribution and regulatory 
pr(^ams as authorized by law, and for administration and co-
ordmation of payments to States; including field employment pursu-
ant to section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and 
not to exceed $70,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$33,171,000; of which not less than $1,623,000 shall be available for 
the Wholesale Market Development Program for the design and 
development of wholesale and farmer market facilities for the major 
metropolitan areas of the country: Provided, That this appropriation 
shall be available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alteration 
and repair of buildings and improvements, but, unless otherwise 
provided, the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year 
shall not exceed 10 per centum of the current replacement value of 
the building. 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
Not to exceed $37,962,000 (from fees collected) shall be obligated 
during the current fiscal year for administrative expenses. 
FUNDS FOR STRENGTHENING MARKETS, INCOME, AND SUPPLY 
(SECTION 32) 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
Funds available under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 
U.S.C. 612c) shall be used only for commodity prc^am expenses as 
authorized therein, and other related operating exi)enses, except for: 
(1) transfers to the Department of Commerce as authorized by the 
Fish and Wildlife Act of August 8, 1956; (2) transfers otherwise 
provided in this Act; and (3) not more than $8,007,000 for formula-
tion and administration of Marketing Agreements and Orders 
pursuant to the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as 
amended, and the Agricultural Act of 1961. 
PAYMENTS TO STATES AND POSSESSIONS 
For pajnnents to departments of agriculture, bureaus and depart-
ments of markets, and similar agencies for marketing activities 
under section 204(b) of the Agricidtural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 
U.S.C. 1623(b)), $1,250,000. 
OFFICE O
P TRANSPORTATION 
For necessary expenses to carry on services related to agricultural 
transportation programs as authorized by law; including field 
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emplo3rment pursuant to section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 
U,S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $20,000 for employment under 5 
U.S.C. 3109, $2,397,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be 
available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alteration and 
repair of buildings and improvements, but, unless otherwise pro-
vided, the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year 
shall not exceed 10 per centum of the current replacement value of 
the building. 
PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for administration of the Packers and 
Stockyards Act, as authorized by law, and for certifying procedures 
used to protect purchasers of farm products, including field employ-
ment pursuant to section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 
2225), and not to exceed $5,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$9,562,000. 
FARM INCOME STABIUZATION 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND 
COMMODITY PROGRAMS 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Under 
Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs to 
administer the laws enacted by Congress for the Agricultural Sta-
bilization and Conservation Service, Office of International Coopera-
tion and Development, Foreign Agricultural Service, and the 
Commodity Credit Corporation, $419,000. 
AGRICULTURAL STABILIZATION AND CONSERVATION SERVICE 
SALARIES A N D EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary administrative expenses of the Agricultural Sta-
bilization and Conservation Service, including expenses to formulate 
and carry out programs authorized by title III of the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1301-1393); the 
Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.); sections 
7 to 15, 16(a), 16(f), and 17 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic 
Allotment Act, as amended and supplemented (16 U.S.C. 590g-590o, 
590p(a), 590p(f), and 590q); sections 1001 to 1004, 1006 to 1008, and 
1010 of the Agricultural Act of 1970 as added by the Agriculture and 
Consumer Protection Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1501 to 1504, 1506 to 
1508, and 1510); the Water Bank Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1301-
1311); the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 
2101); sections 202(c) and 205 of title II of the Colorado River Basin 
Salinity Control Act of 1974, as amended (43 U.S.C. 1592(c), 1595); 
sections 401, 402, and 404 to 406 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 
1978 (16 U.S.C. 2201 to 2205); the United States Warehouse Act, as 
amended (7 U.S.C. 241-273); and laws pertaining to the Commodity 
Credit Corporation, not to exceed $632,588,000, to be derived by 
transfer from the Commodity Credit Corporation fund: Provided, 
That other funds made available to the Agricultural Stabilization 
and Conservation Service for authorized activities may be advanced 
to and merged with this account: Provided further. That these funds 
PUBLIC LAW 101-161—NOV. 21, 1989 
103 STAT. 963 
shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence 
of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to 
exceed $100,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 
3109: Provided further, That no part of the funds made available 
under this Act shall be used (1) to influence the vote in any 
referendum; (2) to influence agricultural legislation, except as per-
mitted in 18 U.S.C. 1913; or (3) for salaries or other expenses of 
members of county and community committees established pursu-
ant to section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment 
Act, as amended, for engaging in €uiy activities other than advisory 
and supervisory duties and delegated program functions prescribed 
in administrative regulations. 
DAIRY INDEMNITY PROGRAM 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OP FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses involved in making indemnity pajonents 
to dairy farmers for milk or cows producing such milk and manufac-
turers of dairy products who have been directed to remove their 
milk or dairy products from commercial markets because it con-
tained residues of chemicals registered and approved for use by the 
Federal Government, and in making indemnity payments for milk, 
or cows producing such milk, at a fair market value to any dairy 
farmer who is directed to remove his milk from commercial markets 
because of (1) the presence of products of nuclear radiation or 
fallout if such contamination is not due to the fault of the farmer, or 
(2) residues of chemicals or toxic substances not included under the 
first sentence of the Act of August 13, 1968, as amended (7 U.S.C. 
450j), if such chemicals or toxic substances were not used in a 
manner contrary to applicable regulations or labeling instructions 
provided at the time of use and the contamination is not due to the 
fault of the farmer, $5,000: Provided, That none of the funds con-
tained in this Act shall be used to make indemnity pa3anents to any 
farmer whose milk was removed from commercial markets as a 
result of his willful failure to follow procedures prescribed by the 
Federal Government: Provided further. That this amount shall be 
transferred to the Commodity Credit Corporation: Provided further. 
That the Secretary is authorized to utilize the services, facilities, 
and authorities of the CJommodity Credit Corporation for the pur-
pose of making dairy indemnity disbursement. 
CORPORATIONS 
The following corporations and agencies are hereby authorized to 
Contracts. 
make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing 
authority available to each such corporation or agency and in accord 
with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without 
regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the 
Government (Dorporation (Dontrol Act, as amended, as may be nec-
essary in carrying out the programs set forth in the budget for the 
current fiscal year for such corporation or agency, except as herein-
after provided. 
103 STAT. 964 
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FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE CORPORATION 
ADMINISTRATIVE AND OPERATING EXPENSES 
For administrative and operating expenses, as authorized by the 
Federal Crop Insurtince Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1516), 
$225,626,000: Provided, That not to exceed $700 shall be available for 
official reception and representation expenses, as authorized by 7 
U.S.C. 1506(i). 
FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE CORPORATION FUND 
For payments as authorized by section 5080t)) of the Federal Crop 
Insurance Act, as amended, $162,939,000, of which $28,862,000 is to 
reimburse the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund for agents' 
commission and loss adjustment obligations incurred during prior 
years, but not previously reimbursed, as provided for under the 
provisions of section 516(a) of the Act. 
COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION 
REIMBURSEMENT FOR NET REALIZED LOSSES 
For fiscal year 1990, such sums as may be necessary to reimburse 
the Commodity Credit Corporation for net realized losses sustained, 
but not previously reimbursed (estimated to be $4,800,000,000 in the 
President's fiscal year 1990 Budget Request (H. Doc. 101-4)), but not 
to exceed $4,233,000,000, pursuant to section 2 of the Act of August 
17,1961, as amended (15 U.S.C. 713a-ll). 
Such funds are appropriated to reimburse the (Corporation to 
restore losses incurred during prior fiscal years. Such losses for 
fiscal years 1988 and 1989 include $1,969,000,000 in connection with 
carrying out the Export Enhancement Program (EEP), $264,000,000 
in connection with canying out the Targeted Export Assistance 
Program (TEA), $1,500,000,000 in connection with carrying out the 
Federal Crop Insurance Program, and $31,831,000,000 in connection 
with carrying out the commodity programs. 
SHORT-TERM EXPORT CREDIT 
The Commodity Credit Corporation shall make avsdlable not less 
than $5,000,000,000 in credit guarantees under its export credit 
guarantee program for short-term credit extended to finance the 
export sales of United States agricultural commodities and the 
products thereof, as authorized by section 1125(b) of the Food Secu-
rity Act of 1985 (Public Law 99-198). 
INTERMEDIATE EXPORT CREDIT 
The Commodity Credit Corporation shall make available not less 
than $500,000,000 in credit guarantees under its export guarantee 
program for intermediate-term credit extended to finance the export 
sales of United States agricultural commodities and the products 
thereof, as authorized by section 1131(3)(B) of the Food Security Act 
of 1985 (Public Law 99-198). 
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103 STAT. 965 
GENERAL SALES MANAGER 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
Not to exceed $7,415,000 may be transferred from the Commodity 
Credit Corporation funds to support the General Sales Manager, of 
which up to $4,000,000 shall be available only for the purpose of 
selling surplus agricultural commodities from Commodity Credit 
Corporation inventory in world trade at competitive prices for the 
purpose of regaining and retaining our normal share of world 
markets. The General Sales Manager shall report directly to the 
Reports. 
Secretary of Agriculture. The General Sales Manager shall obtain, 
assimilate, and analyze all available information on developments 
related to private sales, as well as those funded by the Corporation, 
including grade and quality as sold and as delivered, including 
information relating to the effectiveness of greater reliance by the 
General Sales Manager upon loan guarantees as contrsisted to direct 
loans for financing commercial export sales of agricultural commod-
ities out of private stocks on credit terms, as provided in titles I and 
II of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978, Public Law 95-501, and 
shall submit quarterly reports to the appropriate committees of 
Congress concerning such developments. 
TITLE 
II—RURAL 
DEVELOPMENT 
PROGRAMS 
RURAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR SMALL COMMUNITY AND 
RURAL DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Under 
Secretary for Smsill Community and Rural Development to admin-
ister programs under the laws enacted by the Congress for the 
Farmers Home Administration, Rural Electrification Administra-
tion, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, and rural development 
activities of the Department of Agriculture, $424,000. 
FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION 
RURAL HOUSING INSURANCE FUND 
From funds in the Rural Housing Insurance Fund, and for insured 
loans as authorized by title V of the Housing Act of 1949, as 
amended, $1,932,490,000, of which not less than $1,881,920,000 shall 
be for subsidized interest loans to low-income borrowers, as deter-
mined by the Secretary, and for subsequent loans to existing borrow-
ers or to purchasers under assumption agreements or credit sales, 
and for loans to finance sales or transfers to nonprofit organizations 
or public agencies of not more than 5,000 rental units related to 
prepa3niient; and not to exceed $10,000,000 to enter into collection 
and servicing contracts pursuant to the provisions of section 3(fX3) of 
the Federal Claims Act of 1966 (31 U.S.C. 3718). 
For rental assistance agreements entered into or renewed pursu-
ant to the authority under section 521(aX2) of the Housing Act of 
1949, as amended, total new obligations shall not 
exceed 
$300,310,000, to be added to and merged with the authority provided 
for this purpose in prior fiscal years: Provided, That of this amount 
103 STAT. 966 
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not less than $124,918,000 is available for newly constructed units 
financed by section 515 of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended, and 
not more than $5,082,000 is for newly constructed units financed 
under sections 514 and 516 of the Housing Act of 1949: Provided 
further. That $170,310,000 is available for expiring agreements and 
for servicing of existing units without agreements: Provided further, 
That agreements entered into or renewed during fiscal year 1990 
shall be funded for a five-year period, although the life of any such 
agreement may be extended to fully utilize amounts obligated: 
Provided further. That agreements entered into or renewed during 
fiscal years 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989, may also be extended beyond 
five years to fully utilize amounts obligated. 
For an additional amount to reimburse the Rursd Housing Insur-
ance Fund for interest subsidies and losses sustained in prior years, 
but not previously reimbursed, in canying out the provisions of title 
V of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1483, 1487(e), 
and 1490a(c)), including $1,317,000 as authorized by section 521(c) of 
the Act, also including not to exceed $5,000,000 for debt forgiveness 
or payments for eligible households as authorized by section 
502(cX5XD) of the Act, and not to exceed $10,000 per project for 
advances to nonprofit organizations or public agencies to cover 
direct costs (other than purchase price) incurred in purchasing 
projects pursuant to section 502(cX5XC) of the Act; $2,677,897,000. 
For an additional simount as authorized by section 521(c) of the Act, 
such sums as may be necessary to reimburse the fund to carry out a 
rental assistance program under section 521(aX2) of the Housing Act 
of 1949, as amended. 
SELF-HELP HOUSING LAND DEVELOPMENT FUND 
For direct loans pursuant to section 523(bXl)(B) of the Housing 
Act of 1949, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1490c), $500,000 shall be available 
from funds in the Self-Help Housing Land Development Fund. 
AGRICULTURAL CREDIT INSURANCE FUND 
For direct and guaranteed loeuis as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1928-
1929, to be available from funds in the Agricultural Credit Insur-
ance Fund, as follows: farm ownership loans, $569,000,000, of which 
$13,500,000 shall not become available for obligation until October 1, 
1990, (for the purposes of section 202 of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987 (Public Law 
100-119, l^ptember 29, 1987), to the extent that this action has the 
effect of transferring an outlay of the United States from one ^ c a l 
year to an ad^'acent fiscal year, such transfer is a necessary (but 
secondary) result of a significant policy change) and $475,500,000 
shsdl be guaranteed loans; $7,000,000 for water development, use, 
and conservation loans, of which $1,500,000 shall be guarsinteed 
loans; operating loans, $3,500,000,000, of which $2,600,000,000 shall 
be guaranteed loans; Indian tribe land acquisition loans as au-
thorized by 25 U.S.C. 488, $1,000,000; for emergency insured and 
guaranteed loans, $600,000,000 to meet the needs resulting from 
natural disasters; and for matching grants authorized by section 
502(b) of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 (7 U.S.C. 5101-5106), 
$3,500,000. 
For an additional amount to reimburse the Agricultural Credit 
Insurance Fund for interest subsidies and losses sustained in prior 
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103 STAT. 967 
years, but not previously reimbursed, in carrying out the provisions 
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, as amended 
(7 U.S.C. 1988(a)), $4,120,159,000. 
RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSURANCE FUND 
For direct and guaranteed loans as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1928 
and 86 Stat. 661-664, to be available from funds in the Rural 
Development Insurance Fund, as follows: water and sewer facility 
loans, $430,190,000, of which $75,000,000 shall be for guaranteed 
loans; guaranteed industrial development loans, $95,700,000; and 
community facility loans, $119,700,000, of which $24,000,000 shall be 
for guaranteed loans. 
For an additional amount to reimburse the Rural Development 
Insurance Fund for interest subsidies and losses sustained in prior 
years, but not previously reimbursed, in carrying out the provisions 
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, as amended 
(7 U.S.C. 1988(a)), $1,474,499,000. 
RURAL DEVELOPMENT LOAN FUND 
For direct loans to intermediary borrowers, $19,500,000, as au-
thorized under the Rural Development Loan Fund (42 U.S.C. 
9812(a)), to be available from funds in the Rural Development Loan 
Fund, $2,000,000 and from funds appropriated to this account, 
$17,500,000. 
RURAL WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL GRANTS 
For grants pursuant to sections 306(aX2) and 306(aX6) of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, as amended (7 
U.S.C. 1926), $209,395,000, to remain available until expended, 
pursuant to section 306(d) of the above Act. 
VERY LOW-INCOME HOUSING REPAIR GRANTS 
For grants to the very low-income elderly for essential repairs to 
dwellings pursuant to section 504 of the Housing Act of 1949, as 
amended, $12,500,000, to remain available until expended. 
RURAL HOUSING FOR DOMESTIC FARM LABOR 
For financial assistance to eligible nonprofit organizations for 
housing for domestic farm labor, pursuant to section 516 of the 
Housing Act of 1949, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1486), $11,000,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
MUTUAL AND SELF-HELP HOUSING 
For grants and contracts pursuant to section 523(bXlXA) of the 
Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490c), $8,750,000. 
RURAL COMMUNITY FIRE PROTECTION GRANTS 
For grants pursuant to section 7 of the Cooperative Forestry 
Assistance Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-313), $3,091,000 to fund up to 
50 per centum of the cost of organizing, training, and equipping 
rural volunteer fire departments. 
103 STAT. 968 
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COMPENSATION FOR CONSTRUCTION DEFECTS 
For compensation for construction defects as authorized by section 
509(c) of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended, $500,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
RURAL HOUSING PRESERVATION GRANTS 
For grants for rural housing preservation as authorized by section 
552 of the Housing and Urbsm-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 public 
Law 98-181), $19,140,000. 
RURAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS 
For grants authorized under section 310(BXc) (7 U.S.C. 1932) to 
any qualified public or private nonprofit organization, $16,500,000: 
Provided, That $500,000 shall be available for grants to qualified 
nonprofit organizations to provide technical assistance for rursd 
communities needing improved passenger transportation systems or 
facilities in order to promote economic development: Provided fur-
ther. That $1,250,000 shall be available for grants to statewide 
private, non-profit public television systems in predominately rural 
States, to provide information and services on rural economics and 
agriculture. 
OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Adminis-
trator of the Farmers Home Administration, $600,000: Provided, 
That no other funds in this Act shall be available for this Office. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Farmers Home Administration, not 
otherwise provided for, in administering the programs authorized by 
the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921-
2000), as amended; title V of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended 
(42 U.S.C. 1471-1490o); the Rural Rehabilitation Corporation Trust 
Liquidation Act, approved May 3, 1950 (40 U.S.C. 440-444), for 
administering the loan program authorized by title III-A of the 
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (Public Law 88-452 approved 
August 20, 1964), as amended, and such other programs which the 
Farmers Home Administration has the responsibility for admin-
istering, $422,934,000, together with not more than $3,000,000 of the 
charges collected in connection with the insurance of loans as 
authorized by section 309(a) of the dJonsolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act, as amended, and section 517(i) of the Housing Act 
of 1949, as amended, or in connection with charges made on borrow-
ers under section 502(a) of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended: 
Provided, That, in addition, not to exceed $1,000,000 of the funds 
available for the various programs administered by this agency may 
be transferred to this appropriation for temporary field employment 
pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act 
of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), to meet unusual or heavy workload increases: 
Provided further. That not to exceed $500,000 of this appropriation 
may be used for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further. 
That not to exceed $3,234,000 of this appropriation shall be available 
^••Vi'-
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103 STAT. 969 
for contracting with the National Rural Water Association or other 
equally qualified national organization for a circuit rider program to 
provide technical assistance for rural water systems: Provided fur-
ther, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, $1,000,000 of 
this appropriation shall be available solely to carry out the Lower 
Mississippi Delta Development Act as incorporated by reference in 
Public Law 100-460, that all funds appropriated to carry out the 
purposes of the Lower Mississippi Delta Development Act shall be 
available for obligation and expenditure through September 30, 
1990, or the date of expiration of the Commission, whichever shall 
occur first, and that notwithstanding section 10(a) of the Delta 
Development Act, the date for the submission of the Commission's 
interim report is extended to October 16, 1989: Provided further, 
That, in addition to any other authority that the Secretary may 
have to defer principal and interest and forego foreclosure, the 
Secretary may permit, at the request of the borrowers, the deferral 
of principal £ind interest on any outstanding loan made, insured, or 
held by the Secretary under this title, or under the provisions of any 
other law administered by the Farmers Home Administration, and 
may forego foreclosure of any such loan, for such period as the 
Secretary deems necessary upon a showing by the borrower that due 
to circumstances beyond the borrower's control, the borrower is 
temporarily unable to continue making payments of such principal 
and interest when due without unduly impairing the standard of 
living of the borrower. The Secretary may permit interest that 
accrues during the deferral period on any loan deferred under this 
section to bear no interest during or after such period: Provided, 
That, if the security instrument securing such loan is foreclosed, 
such interest as is included in the purchase price at such foreclosure 
shall become part of the principal and draw interest from the date of 
foreclosure at the rate prescribed by law. 
42 u s e 3121 
note. 
Reports. 
7 u s e 1981a 
note. 
Securities. 
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ADMINISTRATION 
To carry into effect the provisions of the Rural Electrification Act 
of 1936, as amended (7 U.S.C. 901-950(b)), as follows: 
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELEPHONE REVOLVING FUND LOAN 
AUTHORIZATIONS 
Insured loans pursuant to the authority of section 305 of the Rural 
Electrification Act of 1936, as amended (7 U.S.C. 935), shall be made 
as follows: rural electrification loans, not less than $622,050,000 nor 
more than $933,075,000; and rural telephone loans, not less than 
$239,250,000 nor more than $311,025,000; to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That loans made pursuant to section 306 of that 
Act are in addition to these amounts but during fiscal year 1989 
total commitments to guarantee loans pursuant to section 306 shall 
be not less than $933,075,000 nor more than $2,100,615,000 of contin-
gent liability for total loan principal: Provided further. That as a 
condition of approval of insured electric loans during fiscal year 
1990, borrowers shall obtain concurrent supplemental financing in 
accordance with the applicable criteria and ratios in effect as of 
July 15, 1982: Provided further. That no funds appropriated in this 
Act may be used to deny or reduce loans or loan advances based 
upon a borrower's level of general funds. 
103 STAT. 970 
PUBLIC LAW 101-161—NOV. 21, 1989 
REIMBURSEMENT TO THE RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELEPHONE 
REVOLVING FUND 
For an additional amount to reimburse the rural electrification 
and telephone revolving fund for interest subsidies and losses sus-
tained in prior years, but not previously reimbursed, in carrying out 
the provisions of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended (7 
U.S.C. 901-950(b)), $244,100,000. 
RURAL TELEPHONE BANK 
For the purchase of Class A stock of the Rural Telephone Bank, 
$28,710,000, to remain available until expended (7 U.S.C. 901-9500))). 
Contracts. 
The Rural Telephone Bank is hereby authorized to make such 
expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority 
available to such corporation in accord with law, and to make such 
contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations 
as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control 
Act, as amended, as may be necessary in canying out its authorized 
programs for the current fiscal year. During fiscal year 1990 and 
within the resources and authority available, gross obligations for 
' the principal amount of direct loans shall be not less than 
$177,045,000 nor more than $210,540,000. 
Grants. 
Loans. 
RURAL COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT FUND 
To reimburse the Rural Communication Development Fund for 
interest subsidies and losses sustained in prior years, but not pre-
viously reimbursed, in making Community Antenna Television 
loans and loan guarantees under sections 306 and 310B of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, as amended, 
$1,329,000. 
RURAL 
ECONOMIC 
DEVELOPMENT SUBACCOUNT 
For grants and loans authorized under section 313 of the Rursd 
Electrification Act, for the purpose of promoting rural economic 
development and job creation projects, $5,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That this amount will be in addition 
to any amounts generated by the interest differential on voluntary 
cushion of credit payments made by REA borrowers. 
OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Adminis-
trator of the Rural Electrification Administration, $194,000: Pro-
vided, That no other funds in this Act shall be available for this 
Office. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For administrative expenses to carry out the provisions of the 
Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended (7 U.S.C. 901-950(b)), 
and to administer the loan and loan guarantee programs for 
Community Antenna Television facilities as authorized by the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921-1995), 
and for which commitments were made prior to fiscal year 1990, 
including not to exceed $7,000 for financial and credit reports, funds 
for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of 
PUBLIC LAW 101-161—NOV. 21, 1989 
103 STAT. 971 
the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $103,000 
for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $31,124,000: Provided, That 
none of the funds in this Act may be used to authorize the transfer 
of fimds to this account from the Rural Telephone Bank: Provided 
further. That not less than $500,000 of this appropriation shall be 
expended to provide community and economic development tech-
nical assistance by Rural Electrification Administration employees 
to rural electric and telephone systems, and that such technical 
assistance prc^ram be made available within ninety days of enact-
ment. 
CONSERVATION 
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR NATURAL RESOURCES AND 
ENVIRONMENT 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment to administer the 
laws enacted by the Congress for the Forest Service and the Soil 
Conservation Service, $445,000. 
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE 
CONSERVATION OPERATIONS 
For necessary expenses for carrying out the provisions of the Act 
of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a-590f) including preparation of 
conservation plans and establishment of measures to conserve soil 
and water (including farm irrigation and land drainage and such 
special measures for soil and water management as may be nec-
essary to prevent floods and the siltation of reservoirs and to control 
agricultural related pollutants); operation of conservation plant 
materials centers; classification suid mapping of soil; dissemination 
of information; acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or pur-
chase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100; purchase and erection or 
alteration or improvement of permanent and temporary buildings; 
and operation and maintenance of aircraft, $481,000,000, of which 
not less than $5,494,000 is for snow survey and water forecasting 
and not less than $7,234,000 is for operation and establishment of 
the plant materials centers: Provided, That of the foregoing 
amounts not less than $355,000,000 is for personnel compensation 
and benefits: Provided further. That except for $1,841,000 for 
16 USC 590e-l. 
improvements of the plant materials centers, the cost of any perma-
nent building purchased, erected, or as improved, exclusive of the 
cost of constructing a water supply or sanitary system and connect-
ing the same to any such building and with the exception of 
buildings acquired in conjunction with land being purchased for 
other purposes, shall not exceed $10,000, except for one building to 
be constructed at a cost not to exceed $100,000 and eight buildings to 
be constructed or improved at a cost not to exceed $50,000 per 
building and except that alterations or improvements to other 
existing permanent buildings costing $5,000 or more may be made in 
any fiscal year in an amount not to exceed $2,000 per building: 
Provided further. That when buildings or other structures are 
Public buildings 
erected on non-Federal land that the right to use such land is 
and grounds. 
obtained as provided in 7 U.S.C. 2250a: Ffovided further. That no 
part of this appropriation may be expended for soil and water 
conservation operations under the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 
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590a-590f) in demonstration projects: Provided further. That this 
appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the 
second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 
2225) and not to exceed $25,000 shall be available for employment 
Employment 
under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further. That qualified local engineers 
^"d 
, 
, 
may be temporarily employed at per diem rates to perform the 
T^S^lZ^^'l' 
technical planning work of the Service (16 U.S.C. 590e-2): Provided 
lb ubc 59Ue-z. 
further. That none of the funds in this Act shall be used for the 
purpose of consolidating equipment, personnel, or services of the 
Soil Ck)nservation Service's national technical centers in Portland, 
Oregon; Lincoln, Nebraska; Chester, Pennsylvania; and Fort Worth, 
Tex£is, into a single national technical center. 
RIVER BASIN SURVEYS AND INVESTIGATIONS 
For necessary expenses to conduct research, investigation, and 
surveys of watersheds of rivers and other waterways, in accordance 
with section 6 of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention 
Act approved August 4, 1954, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1006-1009), 
$12,292,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for 
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the 
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $60,000 shall 
be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109. 
WATERSHED PLANNING 
For necessary expenses for small watershed investigations and 
planning, in accordance with the Watershed Protection and Flood 
Prevention Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1001-1008), $8,824,000: Pro-
vided, That this appropriation shall be available for employment 
pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act 
of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $50,000 shall be available 
for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109. 
WATERSHED AND FLOOD PREVENTION OPERATIONS 
For necessary expenses to carry out preventive measures, includ-
ing but not limited to research, engineering operations, methods of 
cultivation, the growing of vegetation, rehabilitation of existing 
works and changes in use of land, in accordance with the Watershed 
Protection and Flood Prevention Act approved August 4, 1954, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 1001-1005, 1007-1009), the provisions of the Act 
of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a-f), and in accordance with the 
provisions of laws relating to the activities of the Department, 
$182,373,000 (of which $26,271,000 shall be available for the water-
sheds authorized under the Flood Control Act approved June 22, 
1936 (33 U.S.C. 701, 16 U.S.C. 1006a), as amended and supple-
mented): Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for 
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the 
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $20,000,000 
shall be available for emergency measures as provided by sections 
403-405 of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2203-2205), 
and not to exceed $200,000 shall be available for employment under 
5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further. That $4,000,000 in loans may be 
insured, or made to be sold and insured, under the Agricultural 
Credit Insurance Fund of the Farmers Home Administration (7 
U.S.C. 1931): Provided further. That not to exceed $1,000,000 of this 
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103 STAT. 973 
appropriation is available to carry out the purposes of the Endan-
gered Species Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-205), as amended, includ-
ing cooperative efforts as contemplated by that Act to relocate 
endangered or threatened species to other suitable habitats as may 
be necessary to expedite project construction. 
RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses in planning and carrying out projects for 
resource conservation and development and for sound land use 
pursuant to the provisions of section 32(e) of title III of the 
Bankhead^ones Farm Tenant Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1010-1011; 
76 Stat. 607), and the provisions of the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 
, 
U.S.C. 590a-f), and the provisions of the Agriculture and Food Act of 
1981 (16 U.S.C. 3451-3461), $27,620,000: Provided, That $600,000 in 
loans may be insured, or made to be sold and insured, under the 
Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund of the Farmers Home Adminis-
tration (7 U.S.C. 1931): Provided further. That this appropriation 
shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence 
of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to 
exceed $50,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 
3109. 
GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry into effect a program of conserva-
tion in the Great Plains area, pursuant to section 16(b) of the Soil 
Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as added by the Act of 
August 7, 1956, as amended (16 U.S.C. 590p(b)), $20,884,000, to 
remain available until expended (16 U.S.C. 590p(b)(7)). 
AGRICULTURAL STABILIZATION AND (DONSERVATION SERVICE 
AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION PROGRAM 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry into effect the program au-
thorized in sections 7 to 15, 16(a), 16(f), and 17 of the Soil Conserva-
tion and Domestic Allotment Act approved February 29, 1936, as 
amended and supplemented (16 U.S.C. 590g-590o, 590p(a), 590p(0, 
and 590q, and sections 1001-1004, 1006-1008, and 1010 of the Agri-
cultural Act of 1970, as added by the Agriculture and (Consumer 
Protection Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1501-1504, 1506-1508, and 1510)), 
and including not to exceed $15,000 for the preparation and display 
of exhibits, including such displays at State, interstate, and inter-
national fairs within the United States, $184,935,000, to remain 
available until expended (16 U.S.C. 590o) for agreements, excluding 
administration but including technical assistance and related ex-
penses, except that no participant in the Agricultural Conservation 
Program shall receive more than $3,500 per year, except where the 
participants from two or more farms or ranches join to carry out 
approved practices designed to conserve or improve the agricultural 
resources of the community, or where a participant has a long-term 
agreement, in which case the total payment shall not exceed the 
annual payment limitation multiplied by the number of years of the 
agreement: Provided, That no portion of the funds for the current 
year's program may be utilized to provide financial or technical 
103 STAT. 974 
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assistance for drainage on wetlands now designated as Wetlands 
Types 3 ail) through 20 (XX) in United States Department of the 
Interior, Fish and Wildlife Circular 39, Wetlands of the United 
States, 1956: Provided further, That such amounts shall be available 
for the purchase of seeds, fertilizers, lime, trees, or any other 
conservation materials, or any soil-terracing services, and making 
grants thereof to sigricultural producers to aid them in carrying out 
approved farming practices as authorized by the Soil Conservation 
and Domestic Allotment Act, £is amended, as determined and rec-
ommended by the county committees, approved by the State 
committees and the Secretary, under programs provided for herein: 
Provided further, That such assistance will not be used for carrying 
out measures and practices that are primarily production-oriented 
or that have little or no conservation or pollution abatement bene-
fits: Provided further, That not to exceed 5 per centum of the 
allocation for the current year's program for any county may, on the 
recommendation of such county committee and approval of the 
State committee, be withheld and allotted to the Soil Conservation 
Service for services of its technicians in formulating and carrying 
out the Agricultural Conservation Program in the participating 
counties, and shall not be utilized by the Soil Conservation Service 
for any purpose other than technical and other £issistance in such 
counties, and in addition, on the recommendation of such county 
committee and approval of the State committee, not to exceed 1 per 
centum may be made available to any other Federal, State, or local 
public agency for the same purpose and under the same conditions: 
Provided further. That for the current year's program $2,500,000 
shall be available for technical assistance in formulating and carry-
ing out rural environmental practices: Provided further. That no 
part of any funds available to the Department, or any bureau, office, 
corporation, or other agency constituting a part of such Department, 
shall be used in the current fiscal year for the pa3rment of salary or 
travel expenses of any person who has been convicted of violating 
the Act entitled "An Act to prevent pernicious political activities" 
approved August 2, 1939, as amended, or who has been found in 
accordance with the provisions of title 18 U.S.C. 1913 to have 
violated or attempted to violate such section which prohibits the use 
of Federal appropriations for the pa3anent of personal services or 
other expenses designed to influence in any manner a Member of 
Congress to favor or oppose any legislation or appropriation by 
Congress except upon request of any Member or through the proper 
officisd channels. 
FORESTRY INCENTIVES PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, to carry out 
the program of forestry incentives, as authorized in the Cooperative 
Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2101), including technical 
assistance and related expenses, $12,446,000, to remain available 
until expended, as authorized by that Act. 
WATER BANK PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry into effect the provisions of the 
Water Bank Act (16 U.S.C. 1301-1311), $12,371,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
PUBLIC LAW 101-161—NOV. 21, 1989 
103 STAT. 975 
EMERGENCY CONSERVATION PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry into effect the program au-
thorized in sections 401, 402, and 404 of title IV of the Agricultural 
Credit Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2201-2205), $10,000,000, to remain 
available iintil expended, as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 2204. 
COLORADO RIVER BASIN SALINITY CONTROL PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses for carrying out a voluntary cooperative 
salinity control pr<^ram pursuant to section 202(c) of title II of the 
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act, as amended (43 U.S.C. 
1592(c)), to be used to reduce salinity in the Colorado River and to 
enhance the supply and quality of water available for use in the 
United States and the Republic of Mexico, $10,420,000, to be used for 
investigations and surveys, for technical assistance in developing 
conservation practices and in the preparation of salinity control 
plans, for the establishment of on-farm irrigation management 
systems, including related lateral improvement measures, for 
making cost-share payments to agricultural landowners and opera-
tors, Indian tribes, irrigation districts and associations, local govern-
mental and nongovernmental entities, and other landowners to aid 
them in carrying out approved conservation practices as determined 
and reconmiended by the county committees, approved by the State 
committees and the Secretary, and for associated costs of program 
planning, information and education, and program monitoring and 
evaluation: Provided, That the Soil Conservation Service shall pro- Contracts. 
vide technical assistance and the Agricultural Stabilization and 
Conservation Service shall provide administrative services for the 
program, including but not limited to, the negotiation and adminis-
tration of agreements and the disbursement of pa3mients: Provided 
further. That such program shall be coordinated with the regular 
Agricultural (Donservation Progrsim and with research programs of 
other agencies. 
CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the conservation reserve 
program pursuant to the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831-
3845), $1,010,978,000, to remain available until expended, to be used 
for (Commodity Credit (Corporation expenditures for cost-share 
assistance for the establishment of conservation practices provided 
for in approved conservation reserve program contracts, for annual 
rental pajrments provided in such contracts, and for technical assist-
ance: Provided, That none of the funds in this Act may be used to 
enter into new contracts that are in excess of the prevailing loc£d 
rental rates for an acre of comparable land. 
TITLE III—DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS 
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR FOOD AND CJONSUMER 
SERVICES 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Food and Consumer Services to administer the laws 
103 STAT. 976 
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enacted by the Congress for the Food and Nutrition Service and the 
Human Nutrition Information Service, $412,000. 
FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE 
CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS 
42 use 1776a. 
42 use 1776b. 
eiaims. 
Reports. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National School Lunch 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1751-1769b), and the applicable provisions other than 
sections 3 and 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773-
1785, and 1788-1789); $4,887,494,000, to remain available through 
September 30, 1991, of which $730,940,000 is hereby appropriated 
and $4,156,554,000 shall be derived by transfer from funds available 
under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c): 
Provided, That funds appropriated for the purpose of section 7 of the 
Child Nutrition Act of 1966 shall be allocated among the States but 
the distribution of such funds to £Ui individual State is contingent 
upon that State's agreement to participate in studies and surveys of 
programs authorized under the National School Lunch Act and the 
Child Nutrition Act of 1966, when such studies and surveys have 
been directed by the Congress and requested by the Secretary of 
Agriculture: Provided further, That if the Secretary of Agriculture 
determines that a State's administration of any program under the 
National School Lunch Act or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (other 
than section 17), or the regulations issued pursuant to these Acts, is 
seriously deficient, and the State fails to correct the deficiency 
within a specified period of time, the Secretary may withhold from 
the State some or all of the funds allocated to the State under 
section 7 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and under section 
13(kXl) of the National School Lunch Act; upon a subsequent deter-
mination by the Secretary that the programs are operated in an 
acceptable manner some or all of the funds withheld may be allo-
cated: Provided further. That only final reimbursement claims for 
service of meals, supplements, and milk submitted to State agencies 
by eligible schools, summer camps, institutions, and service institu-
tions within sixty days following the month for which the re-
imbursement is claimed shall be eligible for reimbursement from 
funds appropriated under this Act. States may receive program 
funds appropriated under this Act for meals, supplements, and milk 
served during any month only if the final program operations report 
for such month is submitted to the Department within ninety days 
following that month. Exceptions to these claims or reports submis-
sion requirements may be made at the discretion of the Secretary: 
Provided further. That up to $3,600,000 shall be available for 
independent verification of school food service claims: Provided 
further. That $500,000 shall be available to establish the Food 
Service Management Institute at the University of Mississippi. 
eiaims. 
SPECIAL MILK PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out the special milk program, as 
authorized by section 3 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
1772), $20,449,000, to remain available through September 30, 1991. 
Only final reimbursement claims for milk submitted to State agen-
cies within sixty days following the month for which the reimburse-
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103 STAT. 977 
ment is claimed shall be eligible for reimbursement from funds 
appropriated under this Act. States may receive program funds 
appropriated under this Act only if the final program operations 
report for such month is submitted to the Department within ninety 
days following that month. Exceptions to these claims or reports 
submission requirements may be made at the discretion of the 
Secretary. 
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL POOD PROGRAM FOR WOMEN, INFANTS, AND 
CHILDREN (WIC) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the special supplemental food 
pr<^ram as authorized by section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 
1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786), $2,126,000,000, to remain available through 
September 30, 1991, of which up to $2,000,000 may be used to carry 
out the farmer's market coupon demonstration project. 
COMMODITY SUPPLEMENTAL FOOD PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out the commodity supplemental 
food progreun as authorized by section 4(a) of the Agriculture and 
Consumer Protection Act of 1973 (7 U.S.C. 612c (note)), including not 
less than $8,000,000 for the projects in Detroit, New Orleans, and 
Des Moines, $65,028,000: Provided, That funds provided herein shall 
remain available through September 30, 1991: Provided further. 
That none of these funds shall be available to reimburse the 
Commodity Credit Corporation for commodities donated to the 
program. 
FOOD STAMP PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Food Stamp Act (7 U.S.C. 
2011-2027, 2028, 2029), $15,707,096,000: Provided, That funds pro-
vided herein shall remain available through September 30, 1990, in 
accordance with section 18(a) of the Food Stamp Act: Provided 
further. That up to 5 per centum of the foregoing amount may be 
placed in reserve to be apportioned pursuant to section 3679 of the 
Revised Statutes, as amended, for use only in such amounts and at 
such times as may become necessary to carry out program oper-
ations: Provided further. That funds provided herein shall be ex-
pended in accordance with section 16 of the Food Stamp Act: 
Provided further. That this appropriation shall be subject to any 
work registration or work fare requirements as may be required by 
law: Provided further. That $345,000,000 of the funds provided 
herein shall be available only to the extent necessary after the 
Secretary has employed the regulatory and administrative methods 
available to him under the law to curtail fraud, waste, £ind abuse in 
the program: Provided further. That $936,750,000 of the forgoing 
amount shall be available for Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico 
as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 2028, of which not to exceed $10,825,000 is 
available for the (Dattle Tick Eradication Project. 
FOOD DONATIONS PROGRAMS FOR SELECTED GROUPS 
For necessary expenses to carry out section 4(a) of the Agriculture 
and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 (7 U.S.C. 612c (note)), section 
4(b) of the Food Stamp Act (7 U.S.C. 2013), and section 311 of the 
103 STAT. 978 
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Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended (42 U.S.C. 3030a), 
$206,510,000. 
For necessary expenses to carry out section 110 of the Hunger 
Prevention Act of 1988, $40,000,000. 
TEMPORARY EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Temporary Emergency 
Food Assistance Act of 1983, as amended, $50,000,000: Provided, 
That, in accordance with section 202 of Public Law 98-92, these 
funds shall be available only if the Secretary determines the exist-
ence of excess commodities. 
For purchases of commodities to cany out the Temporary Emer-
gency Food Assistance Act of 1983, as amended by section 104 of the 
Hunger Prevention Act of 1988, $120,000,000. 
FOOD PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary administrative expenses of the domestic food pro-
grams funded under this Act, $93,026,000; of which $5,000,000 shall 
be available only for simplifying procedures, reducing overhead 
costs, tightening r^ulations, improving food stamp coupon han-
dling, and assistance in the prevention, identification, and prosecu-
tion of fraud and other violations of law: Provided, That this appro-
priation shall be available for employment pursuant to the second 
sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), 
and not to exceed $150,000 shall be available for employment under 
5 U.S.C. 3109. 
HUMAN NUTRITION INFORMATION SERVICE 
For necessary expenses to enable the Human Nutrition Informa-
tion Service to perform applied research and demonstrations relat-
ing to human nutrition and consumer use and economics of food 
utilization, $9,145,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be 
available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 
706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225). 
TITLE IV—INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS 
FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE 
For necessary expenses of the Foreign Agricultural Service, 
including carrying out title VI of the Agricultural Act of 1954, as 
amended (7 U.S.C. 1761-1768), market development activities 
abroad, and for enabling the Secretary to coordinate and integrate 
activities of the Department in connection with foreign agricultural 
work, including not to exceed $110,000 for representation allowances 
and for expenses pursuant to section 8 of the Act approved August 3, 
1956 (7 U.S.C. 1766), $102,529,000: Provided, That this appropriation 
shall be available to obtain statistics and related facts on foreign 
production and full and complete information on methods used by 
other countries to move farm commodities in world trade on a 
competitive basis. 
PUBLIC LAW 101-161—NOV. 21, 1989 
103 STAT. 979 
AGRICULTURAL TRADE MISSIONS 
For necessary expenses for agricultural aid and trade missions as 
authorized by Public Law 100-202, $200,000. 
PuBuc LAW 480 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For expenses during the current fiscal year, not otherwise 
recoverable, and unrecovered prior years' costs, including interest 
thereon, under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance 
Act of 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1691, 1701-1715, 1721-1726, 1727-
1727f, 1731-1736g), as follows: (1) financing the sale of agricultural 
commodities for convertible foreign currencies and for dollars on 
credit terms pursuant to titles I and III of said Act, or for convert-
ible foreign currency for use under 7 U.S.C. 1708, and for furnishing 
commodities to carry out the Food for Progress Act of 1985, not more 
than $860,955,000, of which $309,900,000 is hereby appropriated and 
the balance derived from proceeds from sales of foreign currencies 
and dollar loan repayments, repa3anents on long-term credit sales, 
carryover balances and commodities made available from the inven-
tories of the Commodity Credit Corporation by the Secretary of 
Agriculture pursuant to sections 102 and 403(b) of said Act, and (2) 
commodities supplied in connection with dispositions abroad, pursu-
ant to title II of said Act, not more than $682,100,000, of which 
$682,100,000 is hereby appropriated: Provided, That not to exceed 10 
per centum of the funds made available to carry out any title to this 
paragraph may be used to carry out any other title of this 
paragraph. 
OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of International Cooperation 
and Development to coordinate, plan, and direct activities involving 
international development, technical assistance and training, and 
international scientific and technical cooperation in the Department 
of Agriculture, including those authorized by the Food and Agri-
culture Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3291), $6,118,000: Provided, That not to 
exceed $3,000 of this amount shall be available for official reception 
and representation expenses as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1766: Pro-
vided further, That in addition, funds available to the Department of 
Agriculture shall be available to assist an international organization 
in meeting the costs, including salaries, fringe benefits and other 
associated costs, related to the employment by the organization of 
Federal personnel that may transfer to the organization under the 
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 3581-3584, or of other well-qualified United 
States citizens, for the performance of activities that contribute to 
increased understanding of international agricultural issues, with 
transfer of funds for this purpose from one appropriation to another 
or to a single account authorized, such funds remaining available 
until expended: Provided further, That the Office may utilize ad-
vances of funds, or reimburse this appropriation for expenditures 
made on behalf of Federal agencies, public and private organizations 
and institutions under agreements executed pursuant to the agricul-
103 STAT. 980 
PUBLIC LAW 101-161—NOV. 21, 1989 
tural food production assistance programs (7 U.S.C. 1736) and the 
foreign assistance programs of the International Development Co-
operation Administration (22 U.S.C. 2392). 
SCIENTIFIC ACnVITIES OVERSEAS (FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM) 
For payments in foreign currencies owed to or owned by the 
United States for market development research authorized by sec-
tion 104(bXl) and for agricultural and forestry research and other 
functions related thereto authorized by section 104(bX3) of the Agri-
cultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended 
(7 U.S.C. 1704(bXl), (3)), $875,000: Provided, That this appropriation 
shall be available, in addition to other appropriations for these 
purposes, for payments in the foregoing currencies: Provided fur-
ther. That funds appropriated herein shall be used for payments in 
such foreign currencies as the Department determines are needed 
and can be used most effectively to carry out the purposes of this 
pargigraph: Provided further. That not to exceed $25,000 of this 
appropriation shall be available for payments in foreign currencies 
for expenses of employment pursuant to the second sentence of 
section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), as amended 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 
TITLE V—RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Food and Drug Administration; for 
rental of special purpose space in the District of Columbia or 
elsewhere; and for miscellaneous and emergency expenses of 
enforcement activities, authorized and approved by the Secretary 
and to be accounted for solely on the Secretary's certificate, not to 
exceed $25,000; $560,271,000: Provided, That none of these funds 
shall be used to develop, establish, or operate any program of user 
fees authorized by 31 U.S.C. 9701: Provided further. That of the sums 
provided herein, not to exceed $2,000,000 shall remain available 
until expended, and shall become available only to the extent 
necessary to meet unanticipated costs of emergency activities not 
provided for in budget estimates and after maximum absorption of 
such costs within the remainder of the account has been achieved. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For plans, construction, repair, improvement, extension, alter-
ation, and purchase of fixed equipment of facilities of or used by the 
Food and Drug Administration, where not otherwise provided, 
$8,350,000. 
RENTAL PAYMENTS (FDA) 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For pajrment of space rental and related costs pursuant to Public 
Law 92-313 for programs and activities of the Food and Drug 
PUBLIC LAW 101-161—NOV. 21, 1989 
103 STAT. 981 
Administration which are included in this Act, $25,612,000: Pro-
vided, That in the event the Food and Drug Administration should 
require modification of space needs, a share of the salaries £ind 
expenses appropriation may be transferred to this appropriation, or 
a share of this appropriation may be transferred to the salaries and 
expenses appropriation, but such transfers shall not exceed 10 per 
centum of the funds made available for rental payments (FDA) to or 
from this account. 
DEPARTMENT 
OF 
THE 
TREASURY 
PAYMENTS TO THE FARM CREDIT SYSTEM FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE 
CORPORATION 
For necessary pa5rments to the Farm Credit System Financial 
Assistance Corporation by the Secretary of the Treasury, as au-
thorized by section 6.28(c) of the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as 
amended, for reimbursement of interest expenses incurred by the 
Financial Assistance Corporation on obligations issued in fiscal year 
1990, as authorized, $90,000,000: Provided, That not to exceed 
$2,206,000 of the assistance fund shall be available for administra-
tive expenses of the Farm Credit System Assistance Board: Provided 
further. That officers and employees of the Farm Credit System 
Assistance Board shall be hired, promoted, compensated, and dis-
charged in accordance with title 5, United States (5ode. 
COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Commod-
ity Exchange Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), including the 
purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; the rental of space 
(to include multiple year leases) in the District of Columbia and 
elsewhere; £ind not to exceed $25,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 
3109; $37,691,000, including not to exceed $700 for official reception 
and representation expenses. 
FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION 
12 u s e 2278a-3 
note. 
IJMITATION ON REVOLVING FUND FOR ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
Not to exceed $36,120,000 (from assessments collected from farm 
credit system institutions and the Federal Agricultural Mortgage 
(Dorporation), shall be available for administrative expenses as au-
thorized under 12 U.S.C. 2249, of which not to exceed $1,500 shall be 
available for officisd reception and representation expenses. 
TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 601. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for 
any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 
U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where such expendi-
tures are a matter of public record and available for public inspec-
tion, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under 
existing Executive Order issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 602. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law, appropriations 
and authorizations made for the Department of Agriculture for the 
fiscal year 1990 under this Act shall be available for the purchase, in 
Contracts. 
Public 
information. 
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7 u s e 1623a. 
Drugs and drug 
abuse. 
Government 
organization and 
employees. 
Disaster 
assistance. 
addition to those specifically provided for, of not to exceed 514 
passenger motor vehicles, of which 508 shall be for replacement 
only, and for the hire of such vehicles. 
SEC. 603. Funds in this Act available to the Department of Agri-
culture shall be available for imiforms or allowances therefore as 
authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902). 
SBC. 604. Not less than $1,500,000 of the appropriations of the 
Department of Agriculture in this Act for research and service work 
authorized by the Acts of August 14, 1946 and July 28, 1954, and (7 
U.S.C. 427, 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. 605. No part of the funds contained in this Act may be used to 
make production or other payments to a person, persons, or corpora-
tions upon a final finding by court of competent jurisdiction that 
such p£uty is guilty of growing, cultivating, harvesting, processing or 
storing manjuana, or other such prohibited drug-producing plants 
on any part of lands owned or controlled by such persons or corpora-
tions. 
SEC. 606. Advances of money to chiefs of field parties from any 
appropriation in this Act for the Department of Apiculture may be 
made by authority of the Secretary of Agriculture. 
SEC. 607. 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 
Coital Fund without the approval of the agency administrator. 
SEC. 608. New obligational authority provided for the following 
appropriation items in this Act shall remain available until ex-
pended: Public Law 480; Mutual and Self-Help Housing; Watershed 
and Flood Prevention Operations; Resource Conservation and Devel-
opment; Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program; Animal 
and Plant Health Inspection Service, $4,500,000 for the contingency 
fund to meet emergency conditions, $5,000,000 for the Grasshopper 
and Mormon Cricket Control Programs, and buildings and facilities; 
.^^icultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, salaries and 
expenses funds made available to county committees; the Federal 
Crop Insurance Corporation Fund; Agricultural Research Service, 
buildings and facilities, and up to $10,000,000 of funds made avail-
able for construction at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center; 
Cooperative State Research Service, buildings and facilities; Sci-
entihc Activities Overseas (Foreign Currency Program); Dairy 
Indemnity Program; $2,852,000 for Mgher education training grante 
under section l417(aX3XB) of Public Law 95-113, as amended (7 
U.S.C. 3152(aX3XB)); and buildings and facilities, Food and Drug 
Administration. 
SEC. 609. 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. 610. Not to exceed $50,000 of the appropriation 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. 611. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, employees 
of the agencies of the Department of Agriculture, including employ-
ees of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation county 
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committees, may be utilized to provide part-time and intermittent 
assistance to other agencies of the Department, without reimburse-
ment, during periods when they are not otherwise fully utilized, and 
ceilings on full-time equivalent staff years established for or by the 
Department of Agriculture shall exclude overtime as well as staff 
years expended as a result of carrying out programs associated with 
natural disasters, such as forest fires, droughts, floods, and other 
acts of God. 
SEC. 612. Funds provided by this Act for personnel compensation 
and benefits shall be available for obligation for that purpose only. 
SEC. 613. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be expended by any executive agency, as referred to in the Office of 
Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 401 et seq.), pursuant to 
any obligation for services by contract, unless such executive agency 
has awarded and entered into such contract as provided by law. 
SEC. 614. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act shall be available to implement, administer, or 
enforce any regulation which has been disapproved pursuant to a 
resolution of disapproved duly adopted in accordance with the ap-
plicable law of the United States. 
SEC. 615. Certificates of beneficial ownership sold by the Farmers 
Home Administration in connection with the Agricultural Credit 
Insurance Fund, Rural Housing Insurance Fund, and the Rural 
Development Insurance Fund shall be not less than 65 per centum 
of the value of the loans closed during the fiscal year. 
SEC. 616. 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 Agri-
culture and nonprofit institutions in excess of 10 per centum of the 
total direct cost of the agreement when the purpose of such coopera-
tive arrangements is to carry out programs of mutual interest 
between the two parties. This does not preclude appropriate pay-
ment of indirect costs on grants and contracts with such institutions 
when such indirect costs are computed on a similar basis for all 
agencies for which appropriations are provided in this Act. 
SEC. 617. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to carry out 
any activity related to phasing out the Resource Conservation and 
Development Program. 
SEC. 618. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to prevent or 
interfere with the right and obligation of the Commodity Credit 
Corporation to sell surplus agricultural commodities in world trade 
at competitive prices as authorized by law. 
SEC. 619. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
commodities acquired by the Department in connection with 
Commodity Credit Corporation and section 32 price support oper-
ations may be used, aa authorized by law (15 U.S.C. 714c and 7 
U.S.C. 612c), to provide commodities to individuals in cases of hard-
ship as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture. 
SEC. 620. During fiscal year 1990, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, no funds may be paid out of the Treasury of the 
United States or out of any fund of a Government corporation to any 
private individual or corporation in satisfaction of any assurance 
agreement or payment guarantee or other form of loan guarantee 
entered into by any agency or corporation of the United States 
Government with respect to loans made and credits extended to the 
Polish People's Republic, unless the Polish People's Republic has 
been declared to be in default of its debt to such individual or 
Securities. 
Commerce and 
trade. 
7 u s e 612c note. 
Polish People's 
Republic. 
Loans. 
President of U.S. 
Reports. 
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corporation or unless the President has provided a monthly written 
report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the 
President of the Senate explaining the manner in which the na-
tional interest of the United States has been served by any pay-
ments during the previous month under loan guarantee or credit 
assurance agreement with respect to loans made or credits extended 
to the Polish People's Republic in the absence of a declaration of 
default. 
SEC. 621. None of the funds in this Act shall be available to 
reimburse the General Services Administration for pajonent of 
space rental and related costs in excess of the amounts specified in 
this Act; nor shall this or any other provision of law require a 
reduction in the level of rental space or services below that of fiscal 
year 1989 or prohibit an expansion of rental space or services with 
the use of ftmds otherwise appropriated in this Act. Further, no 
agency of the Department of A^culture, from funds otherwise 
available, shall reimburse the General Services Administration for 
payment of space rental and related costs provided to such agency at 
a percentage rate which is greater than is available in the case of 
funds appropriated in this Act. 
Flood control. 
SEC. 622. In fiscal year 1990, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
initiate construction on not less than twenty new projects under the 
Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (Public Law 566) 
and not less than five new projects under the Flood Control Act 
(PubUc Law 534). 
SEC. 623. Fimds provided by this Act may be used for translation 
of publications of the Department of Agriculture into foreign lan-
guages when determined by the Secretary to be in the public 
interest. 
SEC. 624. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used 
to relocate the Hawaii State Office of the Farmers Home Adminis-
tration from Hilo, Hawaii, to Honolulu, Hawaii. 
Animals. 
SEC. 625. Provisions of law prohibiting or restricting personal 
Health care 
services contracts shall not apply to veterinarians employed by the 
professionals. 
Department to take animal blood samples, test and vaccinate ani-
mcds, and perform branding and tagging activities on a fee-for-
service basis. 
SEC. 626. None of the funds provided in this Act may be used to 
reduce programs by establishing an end-of-year emplo3mient ceiling 
on full-time equivalent staff years below the level set herein for the 
following agencies: Food and Drug Administration, 7,500; Farmers 
Home Administration, 12,675; Agricultural Stabilization and Con-
servation Service, 2,550; RursJ Electrification Administration, 550; 
and Soil Conservation Service, 14,177. 
SEC. 627. Funds provided in this Act may be used for one-year 
contracts which are to be performed in two fiscal years so long £is 
the total amount for such contracts is obligated in the year for 
which the funds are appropriated. 
SEC. 628. Funds appropriated by this Act shall be applied only to 
the objects for which appropriations were made except as otherwise 
' 
provided by law, as required by 31 U.S.C. 1301. 
SEC. 629. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 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 Agriculture when such space will be jointly 
occupied. 
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SEC. 630. None of the funds provided in this Act may be expended 
to release information acquired from any handler under the Agricul-
tural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as amended: Provided, That 
this provision shall not prohibit the release of information to other 
Federal agencies for enforcement purposes: Provided further, That 
this provision shall not prohibit the release of aggr^ate statistical 
data used in formulating regulations pursuant to the Agricultural 
Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as £unended: Provided further. 
That this provision shall not prohibit the release of information 
submitted by milk hcuidlers. 
SEC. 631. Unless otherwise provided in this Act, none of the funds 
appropriated or otherwise made available in this Act may be used 
by the Farmers Home Administration to employ or otherwise con-
tract with private debt collection agencies to collect delinquent 
payments from Farmers Home Administration borrowers. 
SEC. 632. None of the funds in this Act, or otherwise made 
available by this Act, shall be used to sell loans made by the 
Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund. Further, Rural Development 
Insurance Fund loans offered for sale in fiscal year 1990 shall be 
first offered to the borrowers for prepayment. 
SEC. 633. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act shall be used to pay the salaries of personnel 
who carry out a targeted export assistance program under section 
1124 of the Food Security Act of 1985 if the aggregate amount of 
funds 
and/or 
commodities 
under 
such 
program 
exceeds 
$200,000,000. 
SEC. 634. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act shall be used to pay the salaries of personnel 
who carry out an export enhancement program (estimated to be 
$1,000,000,000 in the President's fiscal year 1990 Budget Request (H. 
Doc. 101-4)) if the aggregate amount of funds and/or commodities 
under such program exceeds $770,000,000. 
SEC. 635. None of the funds in this Act, or otherwise made 
available by this Act, shall be used to regelate the order or sequence 
of advances of funds to a borrower under any combination of 
approved telephone loans from the Rural Electrification Adminis-
tration, the Rural Telephone Bank or the Federal Financing Bank. 
SEC. 636. In fiscal years 1990 and 1991, $30,000,000 of section 32 
funds shall be used to purchase sunflower and cottonseed oil, as 
authorized by law, and such purchases to facilitate additional sales 
of such oils in world markets at competitive prices, so as to compete 
with other countries: Provided, That these funds shall be in addition 
to funds made available for this purpose by the Rural Development, 
Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989 (Public 
Law 100-460). 
SEC. 637. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1990 pay Government 
raises for programs funded by this Act shall be absorbed within the 
organization and 
levels appropriated in this Act. 
employees. 
SEC. 638. When issuing statements, press releases, requests for 
"'^®^-
proposals, bid solicitations, and other documents describing projects 
or programs funded in whole or in part with Federal money, all 
grantees receiving Federal funds, including but not limited to State 
and local governments, shall clearly state (1) the percentage of the 
total cost of the program or project which will be financed with 
Federal money, and (2) the dollar amount of Federal funds for the 
project or program. 
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SEC. 639. None of the funds in this Act shall be available to pay 
indirect costs on research grants awarded competitively by the 
Cooperative State Research Service that exceed 25 per centum of 
total direct costs under each award. 
Sugar. 
SEC. 640. Within 30 days of the enactment of this section the 
Philippines. 
Secretary of Agriculture may establish and operate a program for 
Exports. 
fiscal year 1990 as follows: 
(a) The Secretary shall make available to sugar refiners, operators 
and processors commodities acquired by the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration at such levels as the Secretary determines necessary to 
permit such refiners, operators or processors to purchase in the 
amounts specified below raw sugar grown in the Republic of the 
Philippines and countries designated as beneficiary countries pursu-
ant to section 212 of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (19 
U.S.C. 2702) at prices equivalent to the market price for raw cane 
sugar in the United States on the condition that an equivalent 
amount of sugar refined in the United States is exported to world 
markets within 60 days. The Secretary shall make such commodities 
available on the basis of competitive bids and shall have discretion 
to accept or reject bids under such criteria as the Secretary deter-
mines appropriate. Generic certificates shall be issued in lieu of 
commodities acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation under 
the program established under this section. 
0)) The Secretary shall make available sufficient commodities to 
permit the importation of no less than 290,000 short tons of sugar, 
raw value, from the beneficiary countries specified in subsection (a), 
and no less than 110,000 short tons of sugar, raw value, from the 
Republic of the Philippines. Sugar imported under the program 
authorized under this section shall be in addition to any sugar quota 
level established for the countries specified in subsection (a) pursu-
ant to headnote 3 of schedule 1, part 10, subpart A of the Tariff 
Schedules of the United States (9 U.S.C. 1202). 
(c) In order to maximize the number of competing bidders, the 
Secretary shall, in determining the low bidders in the program 
established under this section, make appropriate adjustments in 
bids received from sugar refiners, operators and processors to reflect 
differing transportation costs based on refinery and factory location. 
(d) The program authorized under this section shall be in addition 
to, and not in place of, any authority granted to the Secretary or the 
Commodity Credit Corporation under any other provision of law. 
(e) The Secretary shall carry out the program authorized by this 
section through the Commodity Credit Corporation. 
(f) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to increase the appro-
priation for any program administered by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. 
Reports. 
SEC. 641. (aXD Not later than 20 days after the end of each fiscal 
7 use 2207a. 
year, the Secretary of Agriculture shall (A) submit to Congress a 
report on the amounts obligated and expended by the Department 
during that fiscal year for the procurement of advisory and assist-
ance services, and (B) transmit a copy of such report to the 
Comptroller General of the United States. 
(2) Each report submitted under paragraph (1) shall include a list 
with the following information: 
(A) All contracts awarded for the procurement of advisory 
and assistance services during the fiscal year and the amount of 
each contract. 
(B) The purpose of each contract. 
Imports. 
Tariff Schedules 
of the U.S. 
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iQ The justification for the award of each contract and the 
reason the work cannot be performed by civil servants. 
(b) The Comptroller Greneral of the United States shall review the 
reports submitted under subsection (a) and transmit to Congress any 
comments and recommendations the Comptroller General considers 
appropriate r^arding the matter contained in such reports. 
This Act may be cited as the "Rural Development, Agriculture, 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990". 
Approved November 21, 1989. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 2883: 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 101-137 (Comm. on Appropriations) and No. 101-361 (Comm. 
of Conference). 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 101-84 (Comm. on Appropriations). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 135 (1989): 
July 18, considered and passed House. 
July 27, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
Nov. 16, House agreed to conference report; receded and concurred in certain 
Senate amendments, in others with amendments. Senate agreed to confer-
ence report; concurred in House amendments. 
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 25 (1989): 
Nov. 21, Presidential statement.