118 STAT. 2814 PUBLIC LAW 108–447—DEC. 8, 2004 OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector General, including employment pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978, $78,289,000, including such sums as may be necessary for contracting and other arrangements with public agencies and pri vate persons pursuant to section 6(a)(9) of the Inspector General Act of 1978, and including not to exceed $125,000 for certain con fidential operational expenses, including the payment of informants, to be expended under the direction of the Inspector General pursu ant to Public Law 95–452 and section 1337 of Public Law 97– 98. OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL For necessary expenses of the Office of the General Counsel, $35,861,000. OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND ECONOMICS For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics to administer the laws enacted by the Congress for the Economic Research Service, the National Agricultural Statistics Service, the Agricul tural Research Service, and the Cooperative State Research, Edu cation, and Extension Service, $592,000. ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Service in conducting economic research and analysis, as authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621–1627) and other laws, $74,768,000. NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural Statistics Service in conducting statistical reporting and service work, including crop and livestock estimates, statistical coordination and improvements, marketing surveys, and the Census of Agriculture, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1621–1627 and 2204g, and other laws, $129,480,000, of which up to $22,405,000 shall be available until expended for the Census of Agriculture. AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES 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 including the acquisition, preservation, and dissemination of agri cultural information; and for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100, and for land exchanges where the lands exchanged shall be of equal value or shall be equalized by a payment of money to the grantor which shall not exceed 25 percent of the total value of the land
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