A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, and for other purposes.

(House receded and concurred in certain Senate amendments)

Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates FY 1983 Department of Agriculture (USDA) rural affairs, and related program funds for: (1) the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) standard level user fees; (3) advisory committees; (4) administrative expenses; (5) the Office of Governmental and Public Affairs; (6) the Office of Congressional Affairs; (7) the Office of the Inspector General; (8) the Office of the General Counsel; (9) the Federal Grain Inspection Service; (10) inspection and weighing services; (11) the Agricultural Research Service (ARS); (12) ARS buildings and facilities; (13) overseas scientific activities (foreign currency program); (14) the Cooperative State Research Service; (15) the Extension Service; (16) the National Agricultural Library; (17) the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (18) buildings and facilities, generally; (19) the Food Safety and Inspection Service; (20) the Economic Research Service; (21) the Statistical Reporting Service; (22) the Agricultural Cooperative Service; (23) the World Agricultural Outlook Board; (24) the Agricultural Marketing Service (marketing services, administrative expenses, market strengthening, transportation office, and payments to States and possessions); (25) the Packers and Stockyards Administration; (26) the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (salaries and expenses and the dairy indemnity program); (27) the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (administrative expenses, capital stock subscription, and the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund); and (28) the Commodity Credit Corporation (net losses reimbursement and direct loan levels).

Title II: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates FY 1983 funds for: (1) the Office of Rural Development Policy; (2) the Farmers Home Administration (Rural Housing Insurance Fund including rental reimbursement, Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund including specified set-asides for low income borrowers, Rural Development Insurance Fund including alcohol production loans, Rural Water and Waste Disposal Grants, Very Low-Income Housing Repair Grants, Mutal and Self-Help Housing, Rural Community Fire Protection Grants, construction defects compensation, and salaries); (3) Rural Electrification Administration (Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund, Rural Telephone Bank, Rural Communication Development Fund, and salaries and expenses); (4) Soil Conservation Service (operations, river basin surveys, watershed planning and flood prevention, resource conservation, and Great Plains Conservation Program); and (5) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (agricultural conservation, forestry incentive program, and water bank program).

Makes funds for rural housing for domestic farm labor available from previously appropriated unexpended balances.

Title III: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates FY 1983 funds for: (1) the Food and Nutrition Service (child nutrition programs, special milk program, women, infants, and children feeding program, commodity supplemental food program, food stamps, nutrition assistance for Puerto Rico, food donation programs, and administrative expenses); and (2) the Human Nutrition Information Service.

States with regard to such child nutrition programs that: (1) only final reimbursement claims for service of meals, supplements, and milk submitted to State agencies by eligible schools, summer camps, institutions, and service institutions within 60 days following the claiming month shall be eligible for reimbursement from funds appropriated under this Act; and (2) States may receive program funds for meals, supplements, and milk served during any month only if the final program operations report for such month is submitted to the USDA within 90 days following that month.

States with regard to the special supplemental food program for women, infants and children (WIC) that: (1) funds shall remain available until September 30, 1984; (2) funds provided for the special supplemental food program shall not be withheld from obligation unless Congress approves a rescission of budget authority for such program.

Title IV: International Programs - Appropriates FY 1983 funds for: (1) the Foreign Agricultural Service (including the general sales manager); (2) Public Law 480; and (3) the Office of International Cooperation and Development.

Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates FY 1983 funds for: (1) the Food and Drug Administration (salaries, and standard level user charges); (2) the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (3) the Farm Credit Administration.

Title VI: General Provisions - Requires consulting contracts to be available for public inspection unless otherwise provided for.

Makes funds available for: (1) vehicle purchases; (2) uniforms and allowances; (3) research and service contracts; (4) Working Capital Fund transfers; and (5) publications translation, orientation, and language training.

Prohibits payments of funds to any person who harvests marihuana or drug-producing plants for illegal use.

Prohibits appropriations from remaining available beyond FY 1983 unless expressly provided for.

Authorizes the use of USDA employees as needed on an intermittent basis among the various agencies of the USDA. Excludes overtime and disaster periods from consideration with respect to ceilings on full-time equivalent staff years.

States that specified beneficial home ownership certificates sold by the Farmers Home Administration shall not be less than 75 percent of the value of the loans closed during FY 1983.

Prohibits funds from being used to: (1) phase out the Resource Conservation and Development Program; and (2) pay more than ten percent of the indirect cost rates of specified cooperative agreements between the USDA and nonprofit institutions.

Exempts specified watershed projects from the requirements of Executive Orders 12113 and 12141.

Authorizes the distribution of surplus agricultural commodities to needy persons.

Prohibits Federal funds from being paid in FY 1983 on any form of U.S. loan guarantee with respect to credits on loans made to Poland unless: (1) Poland has been declared in default to the particular creditor; or (2) the President has provided Congress with a monthly written report explaining how U.S. national interest has been served by payments made on such Polish loans in the absence of a declaration of default.

Prohibits standard level user charge reimbursements to the General Services Administration in excess of 1982 levels.

Sets aside specified funds appropriated under this Act to reimburse Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) losses. Directs the CCC to carry out an Export Credit Sales direct loan program in FY 1983 of not more than $500,000,000.