Salaries and Expenses

What this funds

For necessary expenses of the Foreign Agricultural Service, including not to exceed $250,000 for representation allowances and for expenses pursuant to section 8 of the Act approved August 3, remain available until September 30, [2027] 2028 for overseas operations to include the payment of locally employed staff[: Provided, That the Service 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. 1737) and the foreign assistance programs of the United States Agency for International Development: Provided further, That of the funds made available expended, shall be for the Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship expended, shall be for the purpose of offsetting fluctuations in international currency exchange rates, subject to documentation by the Foreign Agricultural Service: Provided further, That of the amount made available under this heading, $1,000,000, shall be for the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the Secretary of State and heads of other relevant Federal departments and agencies as applicable, to conduct an interagency review and, within 60 days of enactment of this Act, provide a detailed report outlining the process and agency needs to support a transfer of the Food for Peace program from the U.S. Agency for International Development to the Foreign Agricultural Service within the Department of Agriculture: Provided further, That such report shall include the requirements outlined in the section entitled "Food for Peace Interagency Review and Report" under the heading "Food for Peace Title II Grants" in Senate Report 119-37 and shall also address any other needs that the Department of Agriculture believes will be required to support successful implementation of such program transfer]. The first change (lines 6 to 29 of paragraph 1) deletes language authorizing use of funds to fund agricultural food production assistance programs, United States Agency for International Development, Cochran Fellowship Program, Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship program, and Food for Peace program. Table FAS-7. Project Statement on Basis of Appropriations (thousands of dollars, FTEs)

Extracted from Foreign Agricultural Service, p. 10. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

Ask this budget line

Answers come from the figures on this page and nothing else. These dollars are parsed from Agriculture (USDA)'s Congressional Justification and are approximate — confirm anything that matters against the cited page.