Calendar No. 282 110TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! 1st Session SENATE 110–134 AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIA- TIONS BILL, 2008 JULY 24, 2007.—Ordered to be printed Mr. KOHL, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 1859] The Committee on Appropriations reports the bill (S. 1859) mak- ing appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes, reports fa- vorably thereon and recommends that the bill do pass. Total obligational authority, fiscal year 2008 Total of bill as reported to the Senate .................... $90,605,092,000 Amount of 2007 appropriations ............................... 97,425,472,000 Amount of 2008 budget estimate ............................ 89,736,689,000 Bill as recommended to Senate compared to— 2007 appropriations .......................................... ¥6,820,380,000 2008 budget estimate ........................................ ∂868,403,000 36–831 PDF CONTENTS Page Summary of the Bill: Overview and Summary of the Bill ................................................................. 5 Reports to Congress .......................................................................................... 5 Transparency in Congressional Directives ..................................................... 5 Title I: Agricultural Programs: Production, Processing, and Marketing: Office of the Secretary ....................................................................... 7 Executive Operations ......................................................................... 8 Office of the Chief Information Officer ............................................. 10 Common Computing Environment ................................................... 11 Office of the Chief Financial Officer ................................................. 11 Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights ........................... 12 Office of Civil Rights .......................................................................... 12 Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration ...................... 12 Agriculture Buildings and Facilities and Rental Payments ........... 13 Hazardous Materials Management .................................................. 13 Departmental Administration ........................................................... 14 Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations ....... 14 Office of Communications .................................................................. 15 Office of Inspector General ................................................................ 15 Office of the General Counsel ........................................................... 16 Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Eco- nomics .............................................................................................. 16 Economic Research Service ............................................................... 16 National Agricultural Statistics Service .......................................... 17 Agricultural Research Service ........................................................... 17 Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service .... 22 Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Pro- grams ............................................................................................... 49 Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service .................................. 50 Agricultural Marketing Service ........................................................ 63 Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration ............ 67 Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety ................................. 68 Food Safety and Inspection Service .................................................. 68 Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services ............................................................................................ 71 Farm Service Agency ......................................................................... 72 Risk Management Agency ................................................................. 75 Corporations: Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund ...................................... 76 Commodity Credit Corporation Fund ............................................... 77 Title II: Conservation Programs: Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environ- ment ........................................................................................................ 80 Natural Resources Conservation Service ................................................ 80 Title III: Rural Development Programs: Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development ........................... 92 Rural Community Advancement Program .............................................. 93 Rural Housing Service .............................................................................. 94 Rural Business—Cooperative Service ...................................................... 102 Rural Utilities Service .............................................................................. 107 (2) 3 Page Title IV: Domestic Food Programs: Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services ................................................................................................... 114 Food and Nutrition Service ...................................................................... 114 Title V: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs: Foreign Agricultural Service ... 125 Title VI: Related Agencies and Food and Drug Administration: Food and Drug Administration ................................................................ 130 Independent Agencies: Farm Credit Administration ............................................................. 142 Title VII: General Provisions .................................................................................. 143 Program, Project, and Activity ............................................................................... 146 Compliance With Paragraph 7, Rule XVI of the Standing Rules of the Sen- ate .......................................................................................................................... 146 Compliance With Paragraph 7(c), Rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate ................................................................................................................... 147 Compliance With Paragraph 12, Rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate ................................................................................................................... 147 Budgetary Impact of Bill ......................................................................................... 151 BREAKDOWN BY TITLE The amounts of obligational authority for each of the seven titles are shown in the following table. A detailed tabulation, showing comparisons, appears at the end of this report. Recommendations for individual appropriation items, projects and activities are car- ried in this report under the appropriate item headings. [In thousands] 2008 Committee 2007 recommendation Title I: Agricultural programs ..................................................................................... 34,030,339 24,590,017 Title II: Conservation programs .................................................................................. 852,555 972,853 Title III: Rural economic and community development programs ............................. 2,499,975 2,358,007 Title IV: Domestic food programs ............................................................................... 57,029,981 59,743,619 Title V: Foreign assistance and related programs ..................................................... 1,477,080 1,494,874 Title VI: Related agencies ........................................................................................... 1,574,194 1,760,085 Title VII: General provisions ........................................................................................ ¥38,652 ¥314,363 Total, new budget (obligational) authority ................................................... 97,425,472 90,605,092 (4) OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY OF THE BILL The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra- tion, and Related Agencies appropriations bill provides funding for a wide array of Federal programs, mostly in the U.S. Department of Agriculture [USDA]. These programs include agricultural re- search, education, and extension activities; natural resources con- servation programs; farm income and support programs; marketing and inspection activities; domestic food assistance programs; rural housing, economic and community development, and telecommuni- cation and electrification assistance; and various export and inter- national activities of the USDA. The bill also provides funding for the Food and Drug Administra- tion [FDA] and allows the use of collected fees for administrative expenses of the Farm Credit Administration [FCA]. Given the budgetary constraints that the Committee faces, the bill as reported provides the proper amount of emphasis on agricul- tural and rural development programs and on other programs and activities funded by the bill. It is within the subcommittee’s alloca- tion for fiscal year 2008. All accounts in the bill have been closely examined to ensure that an appropriate level of funding is