Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 119.djvu/2180

 119 STAT. 2162

Federal buildings and facilities. Mississippi.

Arizona. Real property.

7 USC 1471 note.

VerDate 14-DEC-2004

13:51 Oct 26, 2006

PUBLIC LAW 109–97—NOV. 10, 2005

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. SEC. 779. There is hereby appropriated $6,000,000 to carry out Section 120 of Public Law 108–265 in Utah, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut, and Idaho. SEC. 780. Section 508(a)(4)(B) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508(a)(4)(B)) is amended by inserting ‘‘or similar commodities’’ after ‘‘the commodity’’. SEC. 781. (a) Notwithstanding subtitles B and C of the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 4501 et seq.), during fiscal year 2006, the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board may obligate and expend funds for any activity to improve the environment and public health. (b) The Secretary of Agriculture shall review the impact of any expenditures under subsection (a) and include the review in the 2007 report of the Secretary to Congress on the dairy promotion program established under subtitle B of the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 4501 et seq.). SEC. 782. The Federal facility located at the South Mississippi Branch Experiment Station in Poplarville, Mississippi, and known as the ‘‘Southern Horticultural Laboratory’’, shall be known and designated as the ‘‘Thad Cochran Southern Horticultural Laboratory’’: Provided, That any reference in law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to such Federal facility shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Thad Cochran Southern Horticultural Laboratory’’. SEC. 783. As soon as practicable after the Agricultural Research Service operations at the Western Cotton Research Laboratory located at 4135 East Broadway Road in Phoenix, Arizona, have ceased, the Secretary of Agriculture shall convey, without consideration, to the Arizona Cotton Growers Association and Supima all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the real property at that location, including improvements. SEC. 784. (a) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out a livestock assistance, compensation, or feed program, the Secretary of Agriculture shall include horses and deer within the definition of ‘‘livestock’’ covered by the program. (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— (1) Section 602(2) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1471(2)) is amended— (A) by inserting ‘‘horses, deer,’’ after ‘‘bison,’’; and (B) by striking ‘‘equine animals used for food or in the production of food,’’. (2) Section 806 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106–387; 114 Stat. 1549A– 51) is amended by inserting ‘‘(including losses to elk, reindeer, bison, horses, and deer)’’ after ‘‘livestock losses’’. (3) Section 10104(a) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1472(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘and bison’’ and inserting ‘‘bison, horses, and deer’’.

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