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PUBLIC LAW 103-330 —SEPT. 30, 1994 108 STAT. 2447 part of the funds made available under this Act shall be used: (1) to influence the vote in any referendum; (2) to influence agricultural legislation, except as permitted in 18 U.S.C. 1913; or (3) for salaries or other expenses of members of county and community committees established pursuant to section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, for engaging in any activities other than advisory and supervisory duties and delegated program functions prescribed in administrative regulations. CORPORATIONS The following corporations and agencies are hereby authorized to make expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority available to each such corporation or agency and in accord with law, and to make contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year for such corporation or agency, except as hereinafter provided. FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE CORPORATION ADMINISTRATIVE AND OPERATING EXPENSES For administrative and operating expenses, as authorized by the Federal Crop Insurance Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1516), $68,884,000: Provided, That until October 1, 1995, the Secretary of Agriculture may collect and use such sums as may be necessary for the delivery of catastrophic risk protection under subsections (b) and (c) of section 508 of the Federal Crop Insurance Act, as that Act would be amended by section 6(a)(3) of H.R. 4217 as passed by the House on August 5, 1994, if such provision or similar provision is enacted into law: Provided further. That in addition to amounts otherwise appropriated in this Act, there are hereby appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the crop insurance fund established under section 516 of the Federal Crop Insurance Act, as that Act would be amended by sections 8(b) and (c) of H.R. 4217, if such provision or similar provision is enacted into law: Provided further, That not to exceed $700 shall be available for official reception and representation expenses, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1506(i): Provided pirther. That none of the funds in this Act may be used to offer a Federal crop insurance policy in counties on crops where a loss ratio, that has already been recalculated pursuant to law to reflect the premium rates issued by the Corporation for the 1994 crop year, is in excess of 1.10 more than 70 percent of the years that a policy has been offered since 1980: Provided further. That none of the funds in this Act may be used to pay operating and administrative costs that exceed 31 per centum of premium to insurers of policies on which the Corporation provides reinsurance, except to reimburse said insurers for excess loss adjustment expenses as provided for in the Standard Reinsurance Agreement issued by the Corporation: Provided further. That the fourth proviso shall not apply in any county affected if the Corporation has implemented a nonstandard classification system in such county for those individual farms that have experienced excessive losses since 1980 under which the premium rates, notwithstanding the provision of section