110 STAT. 1188 PUBLIC LAW 104-127—APR. 4, 1996 subsection and late payment penalties and interest charges collected under paragraph (4) through fiscal year 2002. "(B) USE OF ACCOUNT.—For each of fiscal years 1996 through 2002, funds in the Agricultural Quarantine Inspection User Fee Account shall be available, in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts, to cover the costs associated with the provision of agricultural quarantine and inspection services and the administration of this subsection. Amounts made available under this subparagraph shall be available until expended. "(C) EXCESS FEES.— Fees and other amounts collected under this subsection in any of fiscal years 1996 through 2002 in excess of $100,000,000 shall be available for the purposes specified in subparagraph (B) until expended, without further appropriation. "(6) USE OF AMOUNTS COLLECTED AFTER FISCAL YEAR 2002.— After September 30, 2002, the unobligated balance in the Agricultural Quarantine Inspection User Fee Account and fees and other amounts collected under this subsection shall be credited to the Department of Agriculture accounts that incur the costs associated with the provision of agricultural quarantine and inspection services and the administration of this subsection. The fees and other amounts shall remain available to the Secretary until expended without fiscal year limitation. "(7) STAFF YEARS.— The number of full-time equivalent positions in the Department of Agriculture attributable to the provision of agricultural quarantine and inspection services and the administration of this subsection shall not be counted toward the limitation on the total number of full-time equivalent positions in all agencies specified in section 5(b) of the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 1994 (Public Law 103- 226; 5 U.S.C. 3101 note) or other limitation on the total number of full-time equivalent positions.". SEC. 918. MEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTION. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF SAFE MEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTION PANEL.— (1) IN GENERAL. —The Federal Meat Inspection Act is amended— (A) by redesignating section 410 (21 U.S.C. 680) as section 411; and (B) by inserting after section 409 (21 U.S.C. 679) the following: 21 USC 679a. "SEC. 410. SAFE MEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTION PANEL. "(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—T here is established in the Department of Agriculture a permanent advisory panel to be known as the 'Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel' (referred to in this section as the 'panel'). "(b) DUTIES. — "(1) REVIEW AND EVALUATION. —The panel shall review and evaluate, as the panel considers necessary, the adequacy, necessity, safety, cost-effectiveness, and scientific merit of— "(A) inspection procedures of, and work rules and worker relations involving Federal employees employed in, plants inspected under this Act;
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