Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 114 Part 2.djvu/855

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PUBLIC LAW 106-387—APPENDIX 114 STAT. 1549A-41 "(iv) importation otherwise is or appears to be in violation of Federal law. "(B) The notice does not specify any provision described in subparagraph (A) that is not applicable to the importation of the drug. "(C) The notice states the reasons underlying such determination by the Secretary, including a brief application to the principal facts involved of the provision of law described in subparagraph (A) that is the basis of the determination by the Secretary. "(2) For purposes of this section, the term 'warning notice', with respect to the importation of a drug, means a communication from the Secretary (written or otherwise) notifying a person, or clearly suggesting to the person, that importing the drug for personal use is, or appears to be, a violation of this Act.". SEC. 747. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Agriculture may not deny a loan application made pursuant to the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) in Arkansas solely on the basis that— (a) the proceeds of the loan will be used to conduct activities in a flood plain; or (b) the loan is secured by land that is in a flood plain. SEC. 748. Section 2111(a)(3),of the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 651(a)(3)) is amended by adding after "sulfites," "except in the production of wine,". SEC. 749. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, hereafter. Friends of the National Arboretum, an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code incorporated in the District of Columbia, shall not be considered a prohibited source with respect to gifts to the United States National Arboretum so long as Friends of the National Arboretum remains an organization described under section 501(c)(3) of such Code and continues to conduct its operations exclusively for the benefit of the United States National Arboretum. The Secretary of Agriculture shall, within 90 days of enactment of this Act, provide the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress with either a copy of a Memorandum of Understanding detailing the nature of its partnership with the Friends of the National Arboretum, or with a written explanation of why such a Memorandum of Understanding could not be achieved. SEC. 750. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to require an office of the Farm Service Agency that is using FINPACK on May 17, 1999, for financial planning and credit analysis, to discontinue use of FINPACK for 6 months from the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 751. Hereafter, the Secretary of Agriculture shall consider any borrower whose income does not exceed 115 percent of the median family income of the United States as meeting the eligibility requirements for a borrower contained in section 502(h)(2) of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1472(h)(2)). SEC. 752. Effective 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and continuing for the remainder of fiscal year 2001 and each subsequent fiscal year, establishments in the United States that slaughter or process birds of the order Ratitae, such as ostriches, emus and rheas, and squab, for distribution in commerce as human food shall be subject to the ante mortem and