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 94 STAT. 3118

Fuel research funds, transfer.

Crop acreage.

Submittal to congressional committees.

Watershed projects. 42 USC 1962 note. 16 USC 1001 note. 42 USC 1962 note.

PUBLIC LAW 96-528—DEC. 15, 1980

SEC. 618. No funds appropriated by this Act may be used to pay negotiated indirect cost rates on cooperative agreements or similar arrangements between the United States Department of Agriculture and nonprofit institutions in excess of 10 per centum of the value 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. SEC. 619. Within 60 days of enactment of this Act, the Department of Energy shall transfer $10,800,000 to the Department of Agriculture for biomass and alcohol fuels research in accordance with existing inter-agency agreements. This sum represents the total fiscal year 1981 funding for the Department of Energy's on-farm and herbaceous programs, the near-term silviculture program and on-farm alcohol stills. SEC. 620. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used to require producers to remain within their normal crop acreage to be eligible for price-support loans, target price protection, or disaster assistance with regard to the 1981 programs for cotton, wheat, feed grains, and rice under the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1281): Provided, That any increases in acreage in 1981 shall not be used in determining normal crop acreage in future years. SEC. 621. Departments and related agencies receiving appropriations in excess of $50,000,000 under this Act shall, within 30 days following enactment, submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the two Houses of Congress a schedule of anticipated outlays for each month of the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1980. SEC. 622. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, watershed projects under Public Law 83-566 are hereby exempted from the requirements of Executive Orders 12113 and 12141. Approved December 15, 1980.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORTS: No. 96-1095 (Comm. on Appropriations) and No. 96-1519 (Comm. of Conference). SENATE REPORT No. 96-1030 (Comm. on Appropriations). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 126 (1980): July 29, 30, considered and passed House. Nov. 25, considered and passed Senate, amended. Dec. 4, House agreed to conference report; receded from its disagreement and concurred in certain Senate amendments and in others with amendments; Senate agreed to conference report and concurred in House amendments.

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