123STA T . 212 6PUBLIC LA W 111 –80—O CT. 21 , 200 9‘ ‘ (C) C OMBATP A Y.—Forthepu rpo s eo fd eter min in g in c ome e l igi b ilit y under this section ,aS tate agency shall e x clude from income any additional payment under chapter 5 of title 37 , U nited States Code, or other w ise designated by the Secretary to be appropriate for exclusion under this subparagraph, that is recei v ed by or from a member of the United States A rmed Forces deployed to a designated combat z one, if the additional pay— ‘‘(i) is the result of deployment to or service in a combat zone
and ‘‘(ii) was not received immediately prior to serving in a combat zone. ’ ’. S EC . 735. T here is hereby appropriated $1 , 0 00,000 for the grant program for the purpose of obtaining and adding to an anhydrous ammonia fertilizer nurse tan k a substance to reduce the amount of methamphetamine that can be produced from any anhydrous ammonia removed from the nurse tank as authorized by section 1 42 03 of the Food, Conservation, and E nergy Act of 200 8 (21 U.S.C. 8 6 4a). SEC. 736. N one of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used for first - class travel by the employees of agencies funded by this Act in contravention of sections 301 – 10.122 through 301–10.124 of title 41, Code of Federal R egula- tions. SEC. 737. Agencies with j urisdiction for carrying out inter- national food assistance programs under the jurisdiction of this Act, including title I I of the Food for P eace Act and the M c G overn- D ole International Food for Education Program, shall— (1) provide to the Committees on Appropriations of the H ouse and the Senate no later than May 1, 2010, the following
(A) estimates on cost-savings and programmatic effi- ciencies that would result from increased use of pre-posi- tioning of food aid commodities and processes to ensure such cargoes are appropriately maintained to prevent spoil- age; ( B ) estimates on cost-savings and programmatic effi- ciencies that would result from the use of longer-term commodity procurement contracts, the proportional dis- tribution of commodity purchases throughout the fiscal year, longer-term shipping contracts, contracts which include shared-risk principles, and adoptions of other commercially acceptable contracting practices; (C) estimates on costs of domestic procurement of commodities, domestic inland transportation of food aid commodities, domestic storage (including loading and unloading), foreign storage (including loading and unloading), foreign inland transportation, and ocean freight (including ocean freight as adjusted by the ocean freight differential reimbursement provided by the Secretary of Transportation), and costs relating to allocation and dis- tribution of commodities in recipient countries; (D) information on the fre q uency of delays in trans- porting food aid commodities, the cause or purpose of any delays (including how those delays are tracked, monitored and resolved), missed schedules by carriers and non-car- riers (and resulting program costs due to such delays, including impacts to program beneficiaries); Contrac t s.De a dli ne. Cost esti m ates.
