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PUBLIC LAW 102-341—AUG. 14, 1992 106 STAT. 877 WORLD AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK BOARD For necessary expenses of the World Agricultural Outlook Board to coordinate and review all commodity and aggregate agricultural and food data used to develop outlook and situation material within the Department of Agriculture, as authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622g), $2,367,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225). OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Science and Education to administer the laws enacted by the Congress for the Agricultural Research Service, Cooperative State Research Service, Extension Service, and National Agricultural Library, $560,000. ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND COMMERCIALIZATION For necessary expenses to carry out the Alternative Agricultural Research and CommerciaHzation Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5901-5908), $7,250,000 is appropriated to the Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Revolving Fund. AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) For necessary expenses to enable the Agricultural Research Service to perform agricultural research and demonstration relating to production, utilization, marketing, and distribution (not otherwise provided for), home economics or nutrition and consumer use, and for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100, $658,379,000: Provided, That appropriations hereunder shall be available for temporanr employ- ment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) oi the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $115,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further. That funds appropriated herein can be used to provide financial assistance to the organizers of national and international conferences, if such conferences are in support of agency programs: Provided further. That appropriations hereunder shall be available 7 USC 2254. for the operation and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed one for replacement only: Provided further. That appropriations hereunder shall be available to conduct marketing research: Provided further. That appropriations hereunder shall ^ USC 2254. be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and improvements, but unless otherwise provided the cost of constructing any one building shall not exceed $250,000, except for headhouses or greenhouses which shall • each be limited to $1,000,000, and except for ten buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost not to exceed $500,000 each, and the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 per centum of the current replacement value of the building or $250,000, whichever is greater: Provided further, That the limitations on alterations contained in this Act shall