H.R. 5426 (106th): Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001

Introduced:
Oct 06, 2000 (106th Congress, 1999–2000)
Sponsor:
Rep. Joseph Skeen [R-NM2]
Status:
Died (Referred to Committee)
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H.R. 4461 (same title)
Signed by the President — Oct 28, 2000

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This bill was introduced on October 6, 2000, in a previous session of Congress, but was not enacted.

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Introduced Oct 06, 2000
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Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes.

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Last updated Oct 06, 2000.
248 pages

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10/6/2000--Introduced.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Title I: Agricultural Programs
- Title II: Conservation Programs
- Title III: Rural Development Programs
- Title IV: Domestic Food Programs
- Title V: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs
- Title VI: Related Agencies and Food and Drug Administration
- Title VII: General Provisions
- Title VIII: Natural Disaster Assistance and Other Emergency Appropriations
- Title IX: Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement
- Title X: Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset
- Title XI: Conservation of Farmable Wetland
- Title XII: Hass Avocado Promotion, Research, and Information
- Title XIII: Debt Reduction
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 -
Title I - Agricultural Programs
Appropriates funds for FY 2001 for the following Department of Agriculture programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) executive operations ; (3) Office of the Chief Information Officer; (4) Office of the Chief Financial Officer; (5) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration; (6) agriculture buildings and facilities and rental payments; (7) hazardous materials management; (8) departmental administration; (9) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations; (10) Office of Communications; (11) Office of the Inspector General; (12) Office of the General Counsel; (13) Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics; (14) Economic Research Service; (15) National Agricultural Statistics Service; (16) Agricultural Research Service; (17) Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service; (18) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs; (19) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (20) Agricultural Marketing Service; (21) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration; (22) Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety; (23) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (24) Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services; (25) Farm Service Agency; (26) Risk Management Agency; (27) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund; and (28) Commodity Credit Corporation Fund.
Title II - Conservation Programs
Appropriates funds for the: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment; and (2) Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Title III - Rural Development Programs
Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development; (2) Rural Housing Service; (3) Rural Business-Cooperative Service; and (4) Rural Utilities Service.
Title IV - Domestic Food Programs
Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services; and (2) Food and Nutrition Service.
Title V - Foreign Assistance and Related Programs
Appropriates funds for the following: (1)
Foreign Agricultural Service; (2) Public Law 480 program account, title I ocean freight differential grants, and titles II and III grants; and (3) Commodity Credit Corporation export loans program account.
Title VI: Related Agencies and Food and Drug Administration- Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Food and Drug Administration; (2) Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (3) Farm Credit Administration.
Title VII - General Provisions
Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act.
Section 727 -
Prohibits Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fund use to close or relocate the FDA Division of Drug Analysis, St. Louis, Missouri, except that funds may be used to plan a relocation within St. Louis city limits.
Section 728 -
Prohibits FDA fund use to reduce the FDA District Office in Detroit, Michigan, below specified staffing levels.
Section 734 -
Prohibits fund use to declare excess any Federal (Department of Agriculture) lands or facilities at Fort Reno, Oklahoma, or to transfer such lands or facilities prior to a specified date without congressional authorization.
Section 736 -
Revises specified housing, community development, and business assistance provisions respecting isolated, high-cost rural Alaskan areas.
Section 737 -
Makes the Town of Lloyd, New York, and the Town of Thompson, New York, eligible for loans and grants through the rural community advancement program.
Section 742 -
Amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act to extend milk price support provisions.
Section 743 -
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to obligate specified dollar-equivalent amounts of agricultural commodities for foreign countries to assist in mitigating the effects of HIV and AIDS.
Section 745 -
Medicine Equity and Drug Safety Act of 2000 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require regulations permitting the importation into the United States of covered products (prescription drugs).
Section 746 -
Prescription Drug Import Fairness Act of 2000 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit FDA from sending a warning notice to an individual who imports a prescription drug into the United States for personal use unless specified notice requirements are met.
Section 749 -
States that the Friends of the National Arboretum organization shall not be considered a prohibited fund source for the United States National Arboretum as long as such organization maintains its tax-exempt status and operates exclusively for the Arboretum.
Section 752 -
Subjects U.S. establishments that slaughter or process birds of the order Ratitae (ostriches, squab, emus, and rheas) for human consumption to inspection and sanitation requirements under the Poultry Products Inspection Act.
Section 754 -
Amends the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, with respect to the indemnity fund for cotton stored in bankrupt Georgia warehouses, to: (1) extend the use of remaining funds for producers; and (2) authorize fund use for cotton ginners and other cotton-related businesses, and for producers from other States with Georgia-stored cotton.
Section 756 -
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase available funds for the National Sheep Industry Improvement Center.
Section 759 -
Maintains the eligibility, until the availability of 2000 Census population data, of: (1) the Sea Island Health Clinic, John's Island, South Carolina, for community facilities assistance; and (2) a specified area in Dade County, Florida, for business and industry guaranteed loans.
Section 761 -
Considers: (1) the cities of Kewanee and Jacksonville, Illinois, and Vicksburg, Mississippi, as having met certain rural housing area requirements; and; and (2) Jefferson County, Kentucky, as a rural area for purposes of certain business and industry loans.
Section 762 -
Provides settlement funds for claims associated with the Chuquatonchee Watershed Project, Mississippi.
Section 763 -
Makes the Konocti Water District, California, eligible for certain rural utilities grants and loans.
Section 765 -
Authorizes the conveyance of specified land in Prince George's County, Maryland, to resolve certain land claims at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Maryland.
Section 766 -
Obligates specified funds under the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 for California.
Section 769 -
Makes Coachella, California, eligible for rural development mission area assistance.
Section 773 -
Amends the Consolidated Farmers Home Administration Act of 1961 to make Indian tribes (currently federally recognized Indian tribes) eligible for water and waste facility loans and grants.
Section 776 -
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) Alexander Hamilton made an immense contribution to the United States as a principal drafter of the Constitution; and (2) the National Park Service should restore and relocate his home, "the Grange", to St. Nicholas Park, New York City.
Section 777 -
Amends the Fallen Timbers Battlefield and Fort Miamis National Historic Site Act of 1999 to authorize land acquisition assistance and related appropriations.
Title VIII - Natural Disaster Assistance and Other Emergency Appropriations
Authorizes additional Department of Agriculture appropriations for: (1) Office of the Chief Information Officer (common computing environment); (2) departmental administration; (3) Farm Service Agency; (4) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund; (5) Natural Resources Conservation Service; and (6) Rural Community Advancement Program.
Sets forth specified programs for which the Secretary shall make additional compensation and assistance available.
Title IX - Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement
Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 - Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) presidential and congressional authorities and procedures for the imposition of new, and termination of existing, unilateral agricultural or medical sanctions; and (2) trade and travel restrictions with Cuba and other specified countries.
Title X - Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000
Continued Dumping or Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to declare that, whenever continued dumping or subsidization is found to exist by the administering authority or by operation of law, any duties assessed shall be distributed as continued dumping or subsidy offsets to the affected domestic producers for qualifying expenditures on an annual basis.
Limits qualifying expenditures to expenditures incurred since the issuance of the antidumping duty finding or order or countervailing duty order in any or all of the categories of plant, equipment, research and development, personnel training, acquisition of technology, employer-paid employee health care and pension benefits, environmental equipment, training or technology, acquisition of raw materials and other inputs, and borrowed working capital or other funds needed to maintain production.
Directs the Commissioner of the U.S. Customs Service to prescribe offset disbursement procedures.
Requires the Commissioner to establish a special account in the Treasury to receive all antidumping or countervailing duties.
Title XI - Conservation of Farmable Wetland
Conservation of Farmable Wetland Act of 2000 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out a pilot program for conservation reserve enrollment of wetland and buffer acreage in Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Title XII - Hass Avocado Promotion, Research, and Information
Hass Avocado Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 2000 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to issue a marketing order, subject to producer and importer referendum approval, providing for research and promotion of Hass avocados. Sets forth marketing order terms and related provisions, including establishment of a Hass Avocado Board. Authorizes appropriations.
Title XIII - Debt Reduction
Deposits a specified sum for FY 2001 in the Department of the Treasury for public debt reduction.

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