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appropriations and authorizations made for the Department of
Agriculture for the fiscal year 1998 under this Act shall be available
for the purchase, in addition to those specifically provided for, of
not to exceed 394 passenger motor vehicles, of which 391 shall be for
replacement only, and for the hire of such vehicles.

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TITLE VII

-GENERAL PROVISIONS

Agriculture shall be available for uniforms or allowances therefor as
authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902).

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Department of Agriculture in this Act for research and service work
authorized by the Acts of August 14, 1946, and July 28, 1954 (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.

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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 Capital Fund without the
approval of the agency administrator.

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appropriation items in this Act shall remain available until expended
(7 U.S.C. 2209b): Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the
contingency fund to meet emergency conditions, fruit fly program, and
integrated systems acquisition project; Farm Service Agency, salaries
and expenses funds made available to county committees; and Foreign
Agricultural Service, middle-income country training program.
New obligational authority for the boll weevil program; up to 10
percent of the screwworm program of the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service; Food Safety and Inspection Service, field
automation and information management project; funds appropriated for
rental payments; funds for the Native American Institutions Endowment
Fund in the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension
Service; and funds for the competitive research grants (7 U.S.C.
450i(b)), shall remain available until expended.

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remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless
expressly so provided herein.

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the Department of Agriculture in this Act shall be available to provide
appropriate orientation and language training pursuant to Public Law
94-449.

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negotiated indirect cost rates on cooperative agreements or similar
arrangements between the United States Department of Agriculture and
nonprofit institutions in excess of 10 percent of the total direct cost
of the agreement when the purpose of such cooperative arrangements is
to carry out programs of mutual interest between the two parties. This
does not preclude appropriate payment 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.

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commodities acquired by the Department in connection with Commodity
Credit Corporation and section 32 price support operations may be used,
as authorized by law (15 U.S.C. 714c and 7 U.S.C. 612c), to provide
commodities to individuals in cases of hardship as determined by the
Secretary of Agriculture.

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reimburse the General Services Administration for payment 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 1997
or prohibit an expansion of rental space or services with the use of
funds otherwise appropriated in this Act. Further, no agency of the
Department of Agriculture, 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.

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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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Business Innovation Development Act of 1982, Public Law 97-219 (15
U.S.C. 638), none of the funds in this Act shall be available to pay
indirect costs on research grants awarded competitively by the
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service that
exceed 14 percent of total Federal funds provided under each award.

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loan levels provided in this Act shall be considered estimates, not
limitations.

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cost of direct and guaranteed loans made available in fiscal year 1998
shall remain available until expended to cover obligations made in
fiscal year 1998 for the following accounts: the rural development loan
fund program account; the Rural Telephone Bank program account; the
rural electrification and telecommunications loans program account; and
the rural economic development loans program account.

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raises for programs funded by this Act shall be absorbed within the
levels appropriated in this Act.

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the funds made available in this Act may be expended by an entity
unless the entity agrees that in expending the funds the entity will
comply with sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C.
10a-10c; popularly known as the ``Buy American Act'').
(b) Sense of Congress; Requirement Regarding Notice.--
(1) Purchase of american-made equipment and products.--In the
case of any equipment or product that may be authorized to be
purchased with financial assistance provided using funds made
available in this Act, it is the sense of the Congress that
entities receiving the assistance should, in expending the
assistance, purchase only American-made equipment and products.
(2) Notice to recipients of assistance.--In providing
financial assistance using funds made available in this Act, the
head of each Federal agency shall provide to each recipient of the
assistance a notice describing the statement made in paragraph (1)
by the Congress.
(c) Prohibition of Contracts With Persons Falsely Labeling
Products as Made in America.--If it has been finally determined by a
court or Federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a label
bearing a ``Made in America'' inscription, or any inscription with the
same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States
that is not made in the United States, the person shall be ineligible
to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made available
in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility
procedures described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code
of Federal Regulations.

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Agreement Act, marketing services of the Agricultural Marketing Service
and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service may use cooperative
agreements to reflect a relationship between the Agricultural Marketing
Service or the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and a State
or Cooperator to carry out agricultural marketing programs or to carry
out programs to protect the Nation's animal and plant resources.

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than 5 percent of the Class A stock of the Rural Telephone Bank or to
maintain any account or subaccount within the accounting records of the
Rural Telephone Bank the creation of which has not specifically been
authorized by statute: Provided, That notwithstanding any other
provision of law, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available in this Act may be used to transfer to the Treasury or to the
Federal Financing Bank any unobligated balance of the Rural Telephone
Bank telephone liquidating account which is in excess of current
requirements and such balance shall receive interest as set forth for
financial accounts in section 505(c) of the Federal Credit Reform Act
of 1990.

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to provide assistance to, or to pay the salaries of personnel who carry
out a market promotion/market access program pursuant to section 203 of
the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5623) that provides
assistance to the United States Mink Export Development Council or any
mink industry trade association.

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$1,000,000 shall be used to cover necessary expenses of activities
related to all advisory committees, panels, commissions, and task
forces of the Department of Agriculture except for panels used to
comply with negotiated rule makings and panels used to evaluate
competitively awarded grants.

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available by this Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of
personnel who carry out an export enhancement program if the aggregate
amount of funds and/or commodities under such program exceeds
$150,000,000.

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carry out the provisions of section 918 of Public Law 104-127, the
Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act.

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detailed or assigned from an agency or office funded by this Act to any
other agency or office of the Department for more than 30 days unless
the individual's employing agency or office is fully reimbursed by the
receiving agency or office for the salary and expenses of the employee
for the period of assignment.

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available to the Department of Agriculture shall be used to transmit or
otherwise make available to any non-Department of Agriculture employee
questions or responses to questions that are a result of information
requested for the appropriations hearing process.

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available in this Act may be expended or obligated to fund the
activities of the Western Director and Special Assistant to the
Secretary within the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture or any
similar position.

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Agriculture by this Act may be used to acquire new information
technology systems or significant upgrades, as determined by the Office
of the Chief Information Officer, without the approval of the Chief
Information Officer and the concurrence of the Executive Information
Technology Investment Review Board.

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by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act that
remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 1998, or
provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act,
shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a
reprogramming of funds which: (1) creates new programs; (2) eliminates
a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or personnel by
any means for any project or activity for which funds have been denied
or restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) reorganizes
offices, programs, or activities; or (6) contracts out or privatizes
any functions or activities presently performed by Federal employees;
unless the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress are
notified fifteen days in advance of such reprogramming of funds.
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided by previous
Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act that remain
available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 1998, or
provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act,
shall be available for obligation or expenditure for activities,
programs, or projects through a reprogramming of funds in excess of
$500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, that: (1) augments existing
programs, projects, or activities; (2) reduces by 10 percent funding
for any existing program, project, or activity, or numbers of personnel
by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or (3) results from any general
savings from a reduction in personnel which would result in a change in
existing programs, activities, or projects as approved by Congress;
unless the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress are
notified fifteen days in advance of such reprogramming of funds.

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U.S.C. 2802(c)) is amended by inserting before the period at the end
the following: ``, and includes kudzu (Pueraria lobata Dc)''.

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(42 U.S.C. 1490) the Martin Luther King area of Pawley's Island, South
Carolina, located in Georgetown County, shall be eligible for loans and
grants under section 504 of the Housing Act of 1949.

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Administration by this Act shall be used to close or relocate the Food
and Drug Administration Division of Drug Analysis in St. Louis,
Missouri.

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Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7236(a)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1)--
(A) by striking ``Subject to paragraph (4), during'' and
inserting ``During''; and
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``130'' and inserting
``134'';
(2) by striking paragraph (4); and
(3) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (4).

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Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Child, senior, and low-income nutrition programs.--The term
``child, senior, and low-income nutrition programs'' includes--
(A) the food stamp program established under the Food Stamp
Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.);
(B) the school lunch program established under the National
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.);
(C) the summer food service program for children
established under section 13 of that Act (42 U.S.C. 1761);
(D) the child and adult care food program established under
section 17 of that Act (42 U.S.C. 1766);
(E) the special milk program established under section 3 of
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1772);
(F) the school breakfast program established under section
4 of that Act (42 U.S.C. 1773);
(G) the special supplemental nutrition program for women,
infants, and children authorized under section 17 of that Act
(42 U.S.C. 1786); and
(H) the nutrition programs and projects carried out under
part C of title III of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42
U.S.C. 3030e et seq.).
(2) Compact.--The term ``Compact'' means the Northeast
Interstate Dairy Compact.
(3) Northeast interstate dairy compact.--The term ``Northeast
Interstate Dairy Compact'' means the Northeast Interstate Dairy
Compact referred to in section 147 of the Agricultural Market
Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7256).
(4) Director.--The term ``Director'' means the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget.
(b) Evaluation.--Not later than December 31, 1997, the Director
shall conduct, complete, and transmit to Congress a comprehensive
economic evaluation of the direct and indirect effects of the Northeast
Interstate Dairy Compact and other factors which affect the price of
fluid milk.
(c) Components.--In conducting the evaluation, the Director shall
consider, among other factors, the effects of implementation of the
rules and regulations of the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact
Commission, such as rules and regulations relating to over-order Class
I pricing and pooling provisions. This evaluation shall consider such
effects prior to implementation of the Compact and that would have
occurred in the absence of the implementation of the Compact. The
evaluation shall include an analysis of the impacts on--
(1) child, senior, and low-income nutrition programs including
impacts on schools and institutions participating in the programs,
on program recipients, and other factors;
(2) the wholesale and retail cost of fluid milk;
(3) the level of milk production, the number of cows, the
number of dairy farms, and milk utilization in the Compact region,
including--
(A) changes in the level of milk production, the number of
cows, and the number of dairy farms in the Compact region
relative to trends in the level of milk production and trends
in the number of cows and dairy farms prior to implementation
of the Compact;
(B) changes in the disposition of bulk and packaged milk
for Class I, II, or III use produced in the Compact region to
areas outside the region relative to the milk disposition to
areas outside the region;
(C) changes in--
(i) the share of milk production for Class I use of the
total milk production in the Compact region; and
(ii) the share of milk production for Class II and
Class III use of the total milk production in the Compact
region;
(4) dairy farmers and dairy product manufacturers in States and
regions outside the Compact region with respect to the impact of
changes in milk production, and the impact of any changes in
disposition of milk originating in the Compact region, on national
milk supply levels and farm level milk prices nationally; and
(5) the cost of carrying out the milk price support program
established under section 141 of the Agricultural Market Transition
Act (7 U.S.C. 7251).
(d) Additional States and Compacts.--The Director shall evaluate
and incorporate into the evaluation required under subsection (b) an
evaluation of the economic impact of adding additional States to the
Compact for the purpose of increasing prices paid to milk producers.

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disaster reserve established in the Agricultural Act of 1970, the
Secretary may use up to an additional $2,000,000 to implement a
livestock indemnity program as established in Public Law 105-18.

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funds appropriated in this Act may be used to administer the provision
of contract payments to a producer under the Agricultural Market
Transition Act (7 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.) for contract acreage on which
wild rice is planted unless the contract payment is reduced by an acre
for each contract acre planted to wild rice.

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Program.--The first sentence of section 509(f)(4)(A) of the Housing Act
of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1479(f)(4)(A)) is amended by striking ``fiscal year
1997'' and inserting ``fiscal year 1998''.
(b) Housing and Related Facilities for Elderly Persons and Families
and Other Low-Income Persons and Families.--
(1) Authority to make loans.--Section 515(b)(4) of the Housing
Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1485(b)(4)) is amended by striking
``September 30, 1997'' and inserting ``September 30, 1998''.
(2) Set-aside for nonprofit entities.--The first sentence of
section 515(w)(1) of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1485(w)(1))
is amended by striking ``fiscal year 1997'' and inserting ``fiscal
year 1998''.
(3) Loan term.--Section 515 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42
U.S.C. 1485) is amended--
(A) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ``up to fifty'' and
inserting ``up to 30''; and
(B) in subsection (b)--
(i) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the
following:
``(2) such a loan may be made for a period of up to 30 years
from the making of the loan, but the Secretary may provide for
periodic payments based on an amortization schedule of 50 years
with a final payment of the balance due at the end of the term of
the loan;'';
(ii) in paragraph (5), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(iii) in paragraph (6), by striking the period at the
end and inserting ``; and''; and
(iv) by adding at the end the following:
``(7) the Secretary may make a new loan to the current borrower
to finance the final payment of the original loan for an additional
period not to exceed twenty years, if--
``(A) the Secretary determines--
``(i) it is more cost-efficient and serves the tenant
base more effectively to maintain the current property than
to build a new property in the same location; or
``(ii) the property has been maintained to such an
extent that it warrants retention in the current portfolio
because it can be expected to continue providing decent,
safe, and affordable rental units for the balance of the
loan; and
``(B) the Secretary determines--
``(i) current market studies show that a need for low-
income rural rental housing still exists for that area; and
``(ii) any other criteria established by the Secretary
has been met.''.
(c) Loan Guarantees for Multifamily Rental Housing in Rural
Areas.--Section 538 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490p-2) is
amended--
(1) in subsection (q), by striking paragraph (2) and inserting
the following:
``(2) Annual limitation on amount of loan guarantee.--In each
fiscal year, the Secretary may enter into commitments to guarantee
loans under this section only to the extent that the costs of the
guarantees entered into in such fiscal year do not exceed such
amount as may be provided in appropriation Acts for such fiscal
year.'';
(2) by striking subsection (t) and inserting the following:
``(t) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be
appropriated for fiscal year 1998 for costs (as such term is defined in
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974) of loan guarantees
made under this section such sums as may be necessary for such fiscal
year.''; and
(3) in subsection (u), by striking ``1996'' and inserting
``1998''.
This Act may be cited as the ``Agriculture, Rural Development, Food
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
1998''.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.

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