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OBJECTIONABLE PROVISIONS IN S.1427, AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS BILL FOR FISCAL YEAR 2004-LIST 1
November 6, 2003
BILL LANGUAGEEarmark of $100,000 for a pilot program in Alaska to assist communities with community planning
Language stating that of the amount appropriated for the circuit rider program, that Alaska shall receive no less than five percent
Earmark of $5,000,000 to be available for a processing and/or fishery workers housing demonstration project in Alaska, Mississippi, and Wisconsin
Language stating that none of the funds made available to the Food and Drug Administration shall be used to reduce the Detroit, Michigan, Food and Drug Administration District Office below the operating and full-time equivalent staffing level of July 31, 1999.
Earmark of $2,981,000 is made available for the purpose of providing Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowships through the Congressional Hunger Center.
Language stating that none of the funds made available to the Food and Drug Administration shall be used to close or relocate, or to plan to close or relocate, the Food and Drug Administration Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis in St. Louis, Missouri, outside the city or county limits of St. Louis, Missouri.
Language stating that notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Natural Resources Conservation Service shall provide financial and technical assistance through the Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations program to carry out the Upper Tygart Valley Watershed Project, West Virginia.
Earmark of $2,000,000 for the Denali Commission to address deficiencies in solid waste disposal sites which threaten rural drinking water supplies
Language stating that notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall consider the City of Vicksburg, Mississippi; the City of Aberdeen, South Dakota; and the City of Starkville, Mississippi, as meeting the requirements of a rural area contained in section 520 of the Housing Act of 1949.
Language stating that notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall consider the City of Berlin, New Hampshire, to be eligible for loans and grants provided through the Rural Community Advancement Program.
REPORT LANGUAGE
Language stating the Committee encourages the Department to support researching optimal growing techniques for a new crop fiber, Arundo donax, in Eastern Washington and expand Auburn University’s research from the test plot level to commercial sale.
Agricultural Research Service
Language stating the Committee continues the fiscal year 2003 funding level for expanded ARS aerial application research at the College Station, TX, research station.
Increase of $600,000 from the fiscal year 2003 level to continue work on the Bioinformatics Institute for Model Plant Species at the National Center for Genome Resources in New Mexico.
Increase of $1,000,000 over the fiscal year 2003 funding levels for collaborative research with Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory to develop and evaluate sensors, protocals, and statistical procedures that accurately measure particulates and gaseous emissions from agriculture operations.
Language stating the Committee continues funding at the fiscal year 2003 level for collaborative research between ARS and the Universities of Connecticut and Missouri to develop more effective animal vaccines.
Increase of $300,000 over the fiscal year 2003 level for research on alternative swine waste treatment.
Increase of $200,000 from the fiscal year 2003 level for staffing the Appalachian Fruit Research Station in Kearneysville, WV to support on-going research to identify new alternatives for chemical control of insects, and to develop disease resistant trees.
Increase of $500,000 over the fiscal year 2003 for ARS collaborative research with the University of Tennessee and Tennessee State University, including efforts to develop resistant genes in dogwoods and other woody ornamentals
Increase of $100,000 from the fiscal year 2003 level for pasture-raised beef research currently underway at the ARS Appalachian Farming Systems Research Center in Beaver, WV, which is targeted to Appalachian cattle farmers.
Increase of $150,000 from the fiscal year 2003 level to develop grain-based products for use in fish feeds, human food and industrial products from novel cultivars of barley and oats in cooperation with the University of Idaho Hagerman Fish Culture Experiment Station ni Hagerman, ID.
Language stating the Committee continues the fiscal year 2003 level for expanded research in rangeland resource management, irradiated farming technology, and environmental horticulture at the Jornada Experimental Range Station at Las Cruces, NM.
Language stating the Committee continues the fiscal year 2003 level for increased cooperative research between ARS and South Dakota State University for biomass crop production, using distiller grains from ethanol production.
Language stating the Committee continues the fiscal year 2003 level to ARS at Stoneville, MS, to support cooperative research in genomics and bioinformatics and in the use of biophotonics for the imaging of animal physiological processes at the cellular level.
Language stating the Committee continues the fiscal year 2003 level for cooperative research on reducing ammonia levels in poultry litter, improving environmental concerns, and reducing mortality in broiler flocks.
Increase of $300,000 to carry out research experiments to examine the population genetics and biology of Canada thistle and to combat this weed in North Dakota and surrounding states, with research designated to be conducted at the ARS research facility in Fargo, ND.
Language stating the Committee continues the fiscal year 2003 level for the comprehensive catfish health research program based at the Stoneville, MS, National Warmwater Aquaculture Center.
Language stating the Committee continues the fiscal year 2003 funding level to the Central Great Plains Research Station at Akron, CO, for research on extensive crop rotation strategies.
Language stating the Committee continues the fiscal year 2003 to support the core group of scientists currently performing research at the Cereal Disease Research Laboratory, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Increase of $500,000 from the fiscal year 2003 level for increased investigation of the nutritional needs of pregnant and nursing women, and children from conception to adolescence, at the Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Houston, Texas.
Language stating the Committee continues the fiscal year 2003 funding level to the Animal Disease Laboratory, Pullman, WA, and the National Animal Disease Laboratory, Ames, IA, for research on chronic wasting disease.
Language stating the Committee recommends that the ARS consider moving its cacao germplasm collection to the Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center.
Language stating the Committee continues the fiscal year 2003 level for the ARS Corn Germplasm Research Laboratory at Ames, Iowa for research to increase the productivity and genetic diversity of maize grown in the United States.
Language stating the Committee provided the fiscal year 2003 funding level for ARS at Mississippi State to continue cooperative research on the development of corn plants resistant to aflatoxin.
Language stating the Committee continues the fiscal year 2003 funding level to enhance the public cotton breeding program conducted by ARS at Stoneville, MS.
Increase of $1,400,000 from the fiscal year 2003 level for expanded dairy forage research at the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center in Madison, WI.
Earmark of $300,000 for nutrition activities through a cooperative agreement with the Southern University Center for Food Nutrition and Health Promotion in Louisiana.
Increase of $1,000,000 to accelerate research on tamarix control using China beetles and other biocontrols and to expand research on cheat grass at the ARS research station in Reno, NV.
Increase of $100,000 from the fiscal year 2003 level to the ARS Fish Disease and Parasitic Research Laboratory at Auburn, IL, for increased research on the development of commercially approved vaccines for catfish.
Additional $100,000 from the fiscal year 2003 level for increased collaborative research with Purdue University in the area of food safety and engineering.
Increase of $300,000 from the fiscal year 2003 level for additional research required to develop range and pasture plant varieties.
Increase of $600,000 from the fiscal year 2003 funding level to ARS to continue a cooperative project with the University of Kentucky on tall fescue breeding and improvement efforts to develop an enhanced national forage base.
Increase of $300,000 from the fiscal year 2003 level to the Southern Regional Research Center at New Orleans, LA for expanded research efforts focusing on improved termite detection systems, evaluation of wood products for protecting building materials, and enhancement of bait technology.
Language stating the Committee continues funding at the fiscal year 2003 level for continued research and development in the use of insect acoustics at the National Center for Physical Acoustics at the University of Mississippi.
Language stating the Committee continues the fiscal year 2003 level for noxious weeds control at Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory.
Increase of $450,000 from the fiscal year 2003 level to the ARS Parlier, CA, laboratory to continue its research efforts and collaborations to control the Glassy-winged sharpshooter and Pierce’s Disease.
Language stating the Committee expects the ARS to conduct a feasibility study detailing costs and plans for meeting the additional facility space requirements for the Wind Erosion Research Unit and the Grain Marketing Research Center in Manhattan, Kansas.
Earmark of $300,000 for a study of rural health problems related to diet in the Northern Great Plains, to the ARS Grand Forks Human Nutrition Center in cooperation with the University of North Dakota School and Medicine and Health Sciences.
Language stating the Committee continues the fiscal year 2003 level to the ARS Citrus Research Laboratory at Winterhaven, FL, for grapefruit juice/drug interaction research.
Increase of $150,000 for grape genetics research program at the ARS facility in Geneva, New York.
Increase of $300,00 for a cooperative program with the Great Lakes Aquaculture Center to support aquaculture research.
Increase of $300,000 for a cooperative agreement with the University of Wisconsin for Northern Wisconsin Aquaculture research.
Language stating the Committee continues the fiscal year 2003 level for the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center to enhance the competitiveness of U.S. sugarcane producers and to continue to support the expansion of new crops and products, including those from agroforestry, to complement sugarcane production in Hawaii.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 level funding for the Eastern Regional Research Center in Wyndmoor, PA.
Increase of $250,000 for research on powdery mildew affecting hops production in the northwest, to be carried out at the ARS research station at Corvallis, OR.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level for the cooperative research and development efforts on ornamentals, vegetables, and melons at Poplarville, MS.
Increase of $250,000 to ARS from the fiscal year 2003 level to maintain existing scientists and staff as well as to offset inflation and energy costs facing the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 level for the National Soil Tilth Laboratory in Ames, IA, for research on integrated farming systems and nutrient management.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level for expanding IPM strategies for northern climates to support viable crop and nursery production systems and the sustainability of natural resources, particularly in Alaska.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level for karnal bunt research, and directive language for ARS to work with Kansas State University to establish a consortium in Manhattan, KS.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 level for the U.S. Meal Animal Research Center at Clay Center, NE, fro expanded genomics research, to be performed in collaboration with the University of Illinois.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level for research on the development of vaccines to eradicate malignant catarrhal fever virus in small ruminants at the ARS laboratory at Pullman, WA, in cooperation with the ARS sheep station at Dubois, ID, and Washington State University.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level for ARS to initiate collaborative corn-breeding research with the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level for the ARS Animal Disease Research Unit at Pullman, WA and the ARS Tick Research Unit at Kerrville, TX.
Increase of $1,000,000 for monkeypox research by ARS. The agency is directed to work with APHIS, the CDC, and the Fish and Wildlife Service’s Animal Health Laboratory at Madison, WI.
Increase of $300,000 from the fiscal year 2003 funding level for aquaculture research undertaken at the Franklin, Maine research location.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level to fund ARS research at the National Corn to Ethanol Research Pilot Plant, Edwardsville, IL.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level for a National Sclerotinia Institiative at the ARS research station at Fargo, ND.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level to ARS at Oxford for expanding cooperative research with the National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering for mitigating soil erosion ad sediment transport in streams.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level for salaries and related research expenses for a water quality researcher stationed at the USDA-ARS National Soil Erosion Laboratory at West Lafayette, Indiana.
Increase of $500,000 from the fiscal year 2003 funding level for support of two additional scientist positions required by the Northern Grains Insect Research Laboratory to assemble a team of scientists to address the diverse economic and environmental problems in the Northern Plains.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level to strengthen the research and outreach programs conducted by the ARS Biological Control and Soil Conservation Laboratory at Sidney, Montana.
Increase of $900,000 for research at the Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level for bio-control research on invasive non-native and tree species carried out by ARS at the Jornada Experimental Range in Las Cruces.
Increase of $950,000 for ARS research on future water policy in the Central High Plains, conducted in Texas but coordinated with other affected states, including Kansas
Increase of $150,000 for Pear thrips research between ARS and the University of Vermont
Language providing the fiscal year 2003 funding level to the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources to monitor and refine control of the papaya ringspot virus.
Increase of $400,000 for Phytoestrogens research from the fiscal year 2003 level, carried out at the Southern Regional Research Center in New Orleans ($200,000 of this amount is directed to be used in collaboration with the University of Toledo)
Increase of $750,000 for the establishment of a plant genetic diversity and gene discovery center at the ARS Forage and Range Research Laboratory in collaboration with the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station.
Increase of $1,200,000 for scientific staffing and for ongoing poisonous plant research programs at the USDA Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory at Logan, Utah.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level for research staffing needs at the Aberdeen, ID, research laboratory to continue potato research.
Increase of $300,000 for potato storage research at the ARS Madison, WI, laboratory.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 level for the Mandan Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory for a precision agriculture research project and global climate change research.
Program Continuations- The Committee directs the Agricultural Research Service to continue to fund the following areas of research in fiscal year 2004 at the same funding level provided in fiscal year 2003: Acoustic Technology, Oxford, MS; Aerial Application Research, College Station, TX; Aflatoxin in Cotton, Phoenix, AZ; Agricultural Genome Bioinformatics, Ames, IA; Agricultural Law, Drake University, NAL; Agroforestry Research, Booneville, AR; Alternative Crops and Value Added Products, Stoneville, MS; Animal Vaccines; Animal Welfare Information Center, NAL; Appalachian Fruit Research Station, Kearneysville, WV; Appalachian Pasture Based Beef Systems, Beaver, WV; Aquaculture Initiative for Mid-Atlantic Highlands, Leetown, WV; Aquaculture Research, Aberdeen, ID; Arctic Germplasm, Palmer, AK; Arid Lands Research, Las Cruces, NM; Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center, Little Rock, AR; Asian Bird Influenza, Athens, GA; Barley Food Health Benefits, Beltsville, MD; Bee Research, Logan, UT; Bee Research, Weslaco, TX; Binational Agricultural Research and Development Program; Bioinformatics Institute for Model Plant Species, Ames, IA; Biomass Crop Production, Brookings, SD; Biomedical Materials in Plants, Beltsville, MD; Biomineral Soil Amendments for Control of Nematodes, Beltsville, MD; Biotechnology Research and Development Corp, Peoria, IL; Biotechnology Research to Improve Crops and Livestock, Stoneville, MS; Bovine Genetics, Beltsville, MD; Broiler Production in the Mid-South, Mississippi State, MS; Catfish Genome, Auburn, AL; Catfish Health, Stoneville, MS; Central Great Plains Research Station, Akron, CO; Cereal Crops Research, Madison, WI; Cereal Crops, Northern Crops, Fargo, ND; Cereal Disease Research, St. Paul, MN; Coffee and Cocoa Research, Miami, FL; Beltsville, MD; Corn Germplasm, Mississippi State, MS; Corn Germplasm, Ames, IA; Corn Resistant to Aflatoxin, Mississippi State, MS; Cotton Genetics Research, Florence, SC; Cotton Genomics, Breeding, and Variety Development, Stoneville, MS; Cotton Genomics, Breeding, Variety Development and Pest Resistance, Stoneville, MS; Cotton Ginning Research, Las Cruces, NM; Dairy Forage, Madison, WI; Dairy Genetics, Beltsville, MD; Delta Nutrition Intervention Initiative. Little Rock, AR; Diet and Immune Function, Little Rock, AR; Dryland Production, Akron, CO; Ecology of Tamarix, Reno, NV; Floriculture and Nursery Crops; Food Safety and Engineering, Wyndmoor, PA; Food Safety for Listeria and E.coli; Forage and Range Research, Logan, UT; Forage-Livestock Systems, Lexington, KY; Formosan Subterranean Termites, New Orleans, LA; Foundry Sand By-Products, Beltsville, MD; Ft. Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory, Miles City, MT; Grain Legume Plant Pathologist Position, Pullman, WA; Grain Research, Manhattan, KS; Grand Forks Human Nutrition Laboratory, Grand Forks, ND; Grape Genetics, Geneva, NY; Grapefruit Juice/Drug Interaction; Winter Haven, FL; Great Basins Rangeland, Boise, ID; Reno, NV; Burns, OR; Greenhouse Hydroponics Research, Wooster, OH; Harry Dupree National Aquaculture Research Center, Stuttgart, AR; Harvesting Research for Sugarcane, Houma, LA; Hides and Leather Research, Wyndmoor, PA; Honey Bee Research, Baton Rouge, LA; Hops Research, Corvallis, OR; Horticulture Research, Poplaraville, MS; Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Boston, MA; Improved Animal Waste Management, Florence, SC; Improved Crop Production Practices, Auburn, AL; Improved Forage Livestock Production, Lexington, KY; Integrated Farming Systems, Ames, IA; Integrated Farming Systems/Dairy Forage, Madison, WI; IPM for Northern Climate Crops, Fairbanks, AK; Irrigated Cropping Systems in the Mid-South, Stoneville, MS; Johne's Disease, Ames, IA; Beltsville, MD; Jornada Experimental Range Research Station, Las Cruces, NM; Karnal Bunt, Manhattan, KS; Late Blight Fungus, Orono, ME; Livestock and Range Research, Miles City, MT; Livestock Genome Mapping, Clay Center, NE; Malignant Catarrhal Fever [MCF] Virus, Pullman, WA; Medicinal Botanical Production and Processing, Beaver, WV; Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, Madison, WI; Microbial Genomics, Kerrville, TX; Pullman, WA; Minor Use Pesticide [IR-4]; National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture, Leetown, WV; National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture--Aquaculture Systems--Freshwater Institute, Leetown, WV; National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture, Orono, ME; National Corn to Ethanol Research Pilot Plant; National Germplasm Resources Program; National Nutrition Monitoring System, Beltsville, MD; National Sclerotinia Initiative, Fargo, ND; National Sedimentation Laboratory Acoustics, Oxford, MS; National Sedimentation Laboratory Yazoo Basin, Oxford, MS; National Sedimentation Laboratory Yazoo Basin/TMDLs, Oxford, MS; National Soil Dynamics Laboratory, Auburn, AL; National Soil Erosion Laboratory, West Lafayette, IN; National Warmwater Aquaculture Center, Stoneville, MS; Natural Products, Oxford, MS; Nematology Research, Tifton, GA; New England Plant, Soil, and Water Research, Orono, ME; Northern Grain Insect Laboratory, Brookings, SD; Northern Great Plains Ecosystem, Sidney, MT; Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory, Mandan, ND; Noxious Weeds in the Desert Southwest, Las Cruces, NM; Nutritional Requirements, Houston, TX; NW Small Fruits Research, Corvallis, OR; Oat Virus, West Lafayette, IN; Ogallala Aquifer, Bushland, TX; Olive Fruit Fly, Parlier, CA; Montpelier, FR; Ornamental and Horticulture Research, Ithaca, NY; Ornamental Crops Research, Poplarville, MS; Phytoestrogen Research, New Orleans, LA; Pierce's Disease, Davis, CA; Parlier, CA; Ft. Pierce, FL; Potato Breeding Research, Aberdeen, ID; Potato Research Enhancement, Prosser, WA; Potato Research, Aberdeen, ID; Poultry Disease (Avian Coccidiosis), Beltsville, MD; Poultry Disease (Avian Leukosis-J Virus); Precision Agriculture Research, Mandan, ND; Rainbow Trout, Aberdeen, ID; Rainbow Trout, Leetown, WV; Rangeland Resources Research, Las Cruces, NM; Red Imported Fire Ants, Stoneville, MS; Regional Grains Genotyping Research, Raleigh, NC; Residue Management in Sugarcane, Houma, LA; Resistance Management and Risk Assessment in Bt Cotton, Stoneville, MS; Risk Assessment for Bt Corn, Ames, IA; Root Diseases in Wheat and Barley, Pullman, WA; Seafood Waste, Fairbanks, AK; Sedimentation Issues in Flood-Control Dam Rehabilitations, Oxford, MS; Seismic and Acoustic Technologies in Soils Sedimentation Laboratory, Oxford, MS; Shellfish Genetics, Newport, OR; Small Farms, Booneville, AR; Small Fruits Research, Poplarville, MS; Soil Plant Nutrient Research, Ft. Collins, CO; Soil Tilth Research, Ames, IA; Sorghum Research, Little Rock, AR: Manhattan, KS; Stillwater, OK; Bushland, TX; Lubbock, TX; Southwest Pecan Research, College Station, TX; Soybean and Nitrogen Fixation, Raleigh, NC; Soybean Cyst Nematode, Stoneville, MS; Soybean Genetics, Columbia, MO; Soybean Research in the South, Stoneville, MS; Sudden Oak Disease, Frederick, MD; Sugarbeet Research, Kimberly, ID; Sustainable Olive Production, Weslaco, TX; Sustainable Vineyard Practices, Davis, CA; Sustainable Viticulture Research, Davis; CA; Sweet Potato Research, Stoneville, MS; Swine Lagoon Alternatives Research, Florence, SC; Temperate Fruit Flies, Wapato, WA; Trout Genome Mapping, Leetown, WV; Turfgrass Research, Washington, DC; U.S. National Arboretum, Washington, DC; U.S. Pacific Basin Ag Research Center, Hilo, HI; U.S. Plant Stress and Water Conservation Laboratory, Lubbock, TX; U.S. Vegetable Laboratory/Staffing, Charleston, SC; Vaccines and Microbe Control for Fish Health, Auburn, AL; Vegetable Crops Research, Madison, WI; Virus-Free Fruit Tree Cultivars, Wapato, WA; Virus-Free Potato Germplasm, Fairbanks, AK; Viticulture, Corvallis, OR; Waste Management Research, Mississippi State, MS; Water Management Research Laboratory, Brawley, CA; Water Resource Management, Tifton; GA; Water Use Reduction/Producer Enhancement Research, Dawson, GA; Watershed Research, Columbia, MO; Western Grazinglands, Burns, OR; Western Wheat Quality Laboratory, Pullman, WA; Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative, Manhattan, KS; Raleigh, NC; Fargo, ND; Wheat Quality Research, Manhattan, KS; Fargo, ND; Wooster, OH; Pullman, WA; Wild Rice, St. Paul, MN; Woody Genomics and Breeding for the Southeast, Poplarville, MS. Increase of $725,000 from the fiscal year 2003 level to develop and test improved rainbow trout strains and alternative grain-based fish feeds in cooperation with the University of Idaho Hagerman Fish Culture Experiment Station in Hagerman, Idaho.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level for regional grains genotyping research at the ARS research laboratory at Raleigh, NC
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 level to ARS at Stoneville, MS, to coordinate a national program for resistance management and risk assessment in Bt Cotton and other plant incorporated protectants.
Increase of $200,000 for expanded research on seafood waste at the ARS/University of Alaska.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level to ARS at Oxford, MS, for assessing sedimentation issues in flood-control rehabilitation.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level for shellfish genetics research at the Oregon State University Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, OR.
Increase of $250,000 from the fiscal year 2003 level of funding for small fruits research conducted at the Small Fruit Genetics and Pathology Research unit at Corvallis, OR.
Increase of $300,000 from the fiscal year 2003 funding level to the ARS Soil Dynamics Laboratory at Auburn, AL, for soil dynamics research.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level to the ARS Ft. Collins Soil, Plant, Nutrient Laboratory
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level for expanded research at the ARS Grain Sorghum Research Laboratory, Manhattan, Kansas, on the measurement of sorghum quality and the development of alternative uses of sorghum.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level for the continuation of the soybean research program located at the Delta Branch Experiment Station in Stoneville, Mississippi.
Increase of $450,000 from the fiscal year 2003 level to the ARS Ft. Detrik, MD, research laboratory for research critical to stemming the spread of Sudden Oak Disease.
Increase of $40,000 form the fiscal year 2003 level to support research to reduce irrigation and energy costs essential to sugarbeet production, carried at the ARS Kimberly, ID, research station.
Increase of $300,000 for research to develop sustainable methods for improved olive oil production and quality in the southwest, conducted at the ARS Weslaco, TX, research station.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level for ARS, Stoneville, MS, to conduct research on sweet potato production in cooperation with the Alcorn State University Demonstration Farm at Mound Bayou, MS.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level for swine lagoon alternatives research carried out at the ARS Florence, SC laboratory.
Increase of $500,000 from the fiscal year 2003 funding level for research on cool and cold water species at the National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture, in collaboration with West Virginia University.
Language encouraging the agency to collaborate with and fund University of Hawaii scientists to transfer generic resistance to tomato spotted wilt virus into University of Hawaii breeding lines for the impacted vegetable crops.
Language providing funding at no less than the fiscal year 2003 level to maintain the New England Plant, Soil, and Water Laboratory and research programs.
Increase of $400,000 from the fiscal year 2003 funding level for operating the U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center.
Increase of $300,000 from the fiscal year 2003 funding level for research staffing at the U.S. Vegetable Laboratory at Charleston, SC.
Language that continues the fiscal year 2003 funding level to implement technologies for more rapid and dependable methods of pathogen detection and to provide secure production and maintenance of virus-free fruit tree cultivars, to be carried out at the Prosser, WA research station with the Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center.
Language that continues the fiscal year 2003 funding level for the viticulture research position at the University of Idaho Parma Research and Extension Center, and for cooperative research agreements with University of Idaho researchers.
Increase of $500,000 from the fiscal year 2003 level to the ARS for the expanded joint research project with Western Kentucky University, carried out at Bowling Green, KY.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 level for water quality/water use research, carried out by the National Peanut Research Laboratory at Dawson, GA.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 level of funding to ARS for laboratory analysis of water samples collected during implementation of, and in accordance with, the Missouri Watershed Research, Assessment, and Stewardship Project.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 level of funding for rangeland research program at the Burns, OR, laboratory to control invasive weeds which affect the Great Basin.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 level of funding for the Western Wheat Quality Laboratory in Pullman, Washington.
Language continuing the fiscal year 2003 funding level for the Wind Erosion Unit in Manhattan, KS.
Increase of $150,000 from the wine grape foundation block research at Prosser, WA.
Buildings and Facilities
Unrequested earmark of $5,400,000 for the U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center in Hilo, Hawaii
Unrequested earmark of $3,000,000 for the Northeast Marine Cold Water Aquaculture Research Center, Orono/Franklin, Maine
Unrequested earmark of $3,000,000 for the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland
Unrequested earmark of $5,400,000 for the Jamie Whitten Delta States Research Center, Stoneville, Mississippi
Unrequested earmark of $2,700,000 for the National Plant and Genetics Security Center, Columbia, Missouri
Unrequested earmark of $2,800,00 for the Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory, Sidney, Montana
Unrequested earmark of $2,400,000 for the Grazinglands Research Laboratory, Ft. Reno, Oklahoma
Unrequested earmark of $3,500,000 for the U.S. Vegetable Laboratory, Charleston, South Carolina Unrequested earmark of $2,000,000 for the Appalachian Fruit Laboratory, Kearnysville, West Virginia
Unrequested earmark of $4,100,000 for the Nutrient Management Laboratory, Marshfield, Wisconsin
Language stating that the Committee is aware of the need for an animal waste management research laboratory in Bowling Green, Kentucky and directs ARS to provide a report on the feasibility, requirements, and scope for construction of an ARS facility in that location.
Language stating that the Committee is aware of the need for a facility to accommodate existing scientists and the expanding forage-animal production research program at Lexington, Kentucky, and directs ARS to provide a report on the feasibility, requirements, and scope for the construction of such an ARS facility at that location, in collaboration with the University of Kentucky.
Language stating that the Committee is aware of the need for a state-of-the-art laboratory and office facilities to house ARS and Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station [MAFES] scientists, and directs ARS to provide a report on the feasibility, requirements, and scope for construction of an ARS facility at this location, in collaboration with the Mississippi State University.
Language stating the Committee is aware of the need for a vivarium and animal disease research facility at Mississippi State University and directs ARS to provide a report on the feasibility, requirements, and scope for construction of an ARS facility at that location, in collaboration with the Mississippi State University.
Language stating the Committee is aware of the need for an animal bioscience facility at Montana State University to provide a collaborative environment to allow investigators from different disciplines to study issues related to biobased food science and technology as well as animal science, and directs ARS to provide a report on the feasibility, requirements, and scope for construction of an ARS facility at that location, in collaboration with Montana State University.
Language stating the Committee is aware of needs for improvements at the Red River Valley Agricultural Research Center in Fargo, North Dakota, and directs ARS to provide a report on the feasibility, requirements, and scope for facility needs at this location.
Language stating the Committee is aware of the need for an ARS laboratory, greenhouse, and office space for USDA scientists involved in the greenhouse study at the University of Toledo and directs ARS to provide a report on the feasibility, requirements, and scope for the construction of an ARS facility at this location, in collaboration with the University of Toledo.
Language stating the Committee is aware of improvement needs at Dairy Forage Laboratory facility locations at Prairie du Sac and Madison, Wisconsin and directs ARS to provide a report on the feasibility, requirements, and scope for facility needs at these locations.