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103 STAT. 984 PUBLIC LAW 101-161—NOV. 21, 1989 corporation or unless the President has provided a monthly written report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate explaining the manner in which the na- tional interest of the United States has been served by any pay- ments during the previous month under loan guarantee or credit assurance agreement with respect to loans made or credits extended to the Polish People's Republic in the absence of a declaration of default. SEC. 621. None of the funds in this Act shall be available to reimburse the General Services Administration for payment of space rental and related costs in excess of the amounts specified in this Act; nor shall this or any other provision of law require a reduction in the level of rental space or services below that of fiscal year 1989 or prohibit an expansion of rental space or services with the use of ftmds otherwise appropriated in this Act. Further, no agency of the Department of A^culture, from funds otherwise available, shall reimburse the General Services Administration for payment of space rental and related costs provided to such agency at a percentage rate which is greater than is available in the case of funds appropriated in this Act. Flood control. SEC. 622. In fiscal year 1990, the Secretary of Agriculture shall initiate construction on not less than twenty new projects under the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (Public Law 566) and not less than five new projects under the Flood Control Act (Public Law 534). SEC. 623. Funds provided by this Act may be used for translation of publications of the Department of Agriculture into foreign lan- guages when determined by the Secretary to be in the public interest. SEC. 624. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used to relocate the Hawaii State Office of the Farmers Home Adminis- tration from Hilo, Hawaii, to Honolulu, Hawaii. Animals. SEC. 625. Provisions of law prohibiting or restricting personal Health care services contracts shall not apply to veterinarians employed by the professionals. Department to take animal blood samples, test and vaccinate ani- mcds, and perform branding and tagging activities on a fee-for- service basis. SEC. 626. None of the funds provided in this Act may be used to reduce programs by establishing an end-of-year employment ceiling on full-time equivalent staff years below the level set herein for the following agencies: Food and Drug Administration, 7,500; Farmers Home Administration, 12,675; Agricultural Stabilization and Con- servation Service, 2,550; RursJ Electrification Administration, 550; and Soil Conservation Service, 14,177. SEC. 627. Funds provided in this Act may be used for one-year contracts which are to be performed in two fiscal years so long as the total amount for such contracts is obligated in the year for which the funds are appropriated. SEC. 628. Funds appropriated by this Act shall be applied only to the objects for which appropriations were made except as otherwise ' provided by law, as required by 31 U.S.C. 1301. SEC. 629. None of the funds in this Act shall be available to restrict the authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation to lease space for its own use or to lease space on behalf of other agencies of the Department of Agriculture when such space will be jointly occupied.