(C) The amount of any commodity furnished under subparagraphs (A) and (B) of this paragraph in any fiscal year shall not be considered for the purpose of determining whether the requirements of paragraph (10)(A) of this subsection have been met during such fiscal year. (12) 32 There is authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1988, in addition to any other funds authorized to be appropriated, $1,000,000 for technical assistance for the sale or barter of commodities under paragraph (7) to strengthen nonprofit private organizations and cooperatives in the Philippines. (c) 5 To prevent the waste of dairy products acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation through price support operations, the Corporation, on such terms and under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, shall carry out a two-year pilot program under which the Corporation shall barter or exchange such dairy products, to the extent they are available, for forty thousand metric tons (consisting of twenty thousand metric tons in each year of the pilot program) of ultra-high temperature processed fluid milk. Such barter or exchange shall be effected on the basis of competitive bids submitted by domestic processors. The processed milk acquired by the Corporation under this subsection shall be available for donation through foreign governments and public and nonprofit private humanitarian organizations for the assistance of needy persons outside the United States, and the Corporation may pay, with respect to such processed milk donated under this subsection, transporting, handling, and other charges, including the cost of overseas delivery. Any donations under this subsection shall be coordinated through the mechanism designated by the President to coordinate assistance under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and shall be in addition to the level of assistance programmed under that Act. The pilot program shall be implemented by the Corporation as soon as practicable after the enactment of the Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act of 1984 and shall be operated for a period of two years after its implementation. Upon completion of the pilot program, the Secretary shall submit a report to Congress on its operation. 32 Paragraph (12) was added by sec. 1503 of title I of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (Public Law 100-203; 101 Stat. 1330-28). 33 Sec. 1575 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (Public Law 101624; 104 Stat. 3702) struck out subsec. (d), which had provided for "a pilot program under which strategic or other materials that the United States does not produce domestically in amounts sufficient for its requirements and for which national stockpile or reserve goals established by law are unmet shall be acquired in exchange for commodities meeting the criteria specified in subsection (a).". Subsec. (d) was added by sec. 1129 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (Public Law 99-198; 99 Stat. 1486). f. Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992 Partial text of Public Law 102-142 [H.R. 2698], 105 Stat. 878, approved October 28, 1991 AN ACT Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1992, 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 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1992, and for other purposes, namely: TITLE V-FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED 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 $125,000 for representation allowances and for expenses pursuant to section 8 of the Act approved August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1766), $110,023,000: 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. AMERI FLORA '92 EXPOSITION To enable the Secretary to meet any extra expenses of participating in the planning, organizing and carrying out of the Ameri Flora '92 Exposition, the first international horticulture and environment exposition to be held in the United States, $500,000 as authorized by section 1472 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977, as amended (7 U.S.C. 3318), to remain available until expended. PUBLIC LAW 480 PROGRAM ACCOUNT (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) For expenses during the current fiscal year, not otherwise recoverable, and unrecovered prior years' costs, including interest there on, under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1691, 1701-1715, 1721-1726, 17271727f, 1731-1736g), as follows: (1) $511,619,000 for Public Law 480 title I credit, including Food for Progress credit; (2) $52,185,000 is hereby appropriated for ocean freight differential costs for the shipment of agricultural commodities pursuant to title I of said Act and the Food for Progress Act of 1985, as amended; (3) $710,087,000 is hereby appropriated for commodities supplied in connection with dispositions abroad pursuant to title II of said Act; and (4) $333,594,000 is hereby appropriated for commodities supplied in connection with dispositions abroad pursuant to title III of said Act: Provided, That not to exceed 10 per centum of the funds made available to carry out any title of said Act may be used to carry out any other title of said Act. For the cost, as defined in section 13201 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, of direct credit agreements as authorized by the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended, and the Food for Progress Act of 1985, as amended, including the cost of modifying credit agreements under said Act, $388,319,000. In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the Public Law 480 title I credit program, and the Food for Progress Act of 1985, as amended, to the extent funds appropriated for Public Law 480 are utilized, $1,815,000. COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION SHORT-TERM EXPORT CREDIT The Commodity Credit Corporation shall make available 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 211(b)(1) of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5641). 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 211(b)(2) of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5641). EMERGING DEMOCRACIES EXPORT CREDIT The Commodity Credit Corporation shall make available not less than $200,000,000 in credit guarantees under its Export Guarantee Program for credit expended to finance the export sales of United States agricultural commodities and the products thereof to emerging democracies, as authorized by section 1542 of Public Law 101624 (7 U.S.C. 5622 note). COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION EXPORT LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT For the cost, as defined in section 13201 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, including the cost of modifying loans, of guaranteed loans authorized by the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978, as amended, such sums as necessary. In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out CCC's Export Guarantee Program, GSM 102 and GSM 103, $3,320,000. 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 Agriculture Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3291), $7,247,000: 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: Provided 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 advances 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 agricultural food production assistance programs (7 U.S.C. 1736) and the foreign assistance programs of the International Development Cooperation Administration (22 U.S.C. 2392). SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES OVERSEAS (FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM) For payments in foreign currencies owed to or owned by the United States for research activities authorized by section 104(c)(7) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1704(c)(7)), not to exceed $1,062,000: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 of these funds 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 VII-GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 708.1 New obligational authority provided for the following appropriation items in this Act shall remain available until expended: Public Law 480; SEC. 717. 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. This Act may be cited as the "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992". 17 U.S.C. 2209b. |