A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1984, and for other purposes.

(Conference report filed in House, H. Rept. 98-450)

Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates funds for FY 1984 for the following programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) standard level user charges; (3) advisory committees; (4) departmental administration; (5) Office of Governmental and Public Affairs (including congressional liaison); (6) Office of the Inspector General; (7) Office of the General Counsel; (8) Federal Grain Inspection Service (with limitations on administrative expenses); (9) Agricultural Research Service (including scientific activities overseas, funds for construction of Phase III of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, and a prohibition on using funds appropriated in this Act to reduce or end Federal involvement in research programs at Belle Glade, Lake Alfred, or Fort Pierce, Florida); (10) Cooperative State Research Service (including animal health and disease research); (11) Extension Service; (12) National Agricultural Library; (13) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (14) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (15) Economic Research Service; (16) Statistical Reporting Service; (17) Agricultural Cooperative; (18) World Agricultural Outlook Board; (19) Agricultural Marketing Service (with limitations on administrative expenses); (20) Office of Transportation; (21) Packers and Stockyards Administration; and (22) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (including the dairy indemnity program).

Authorizes the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and the Commodity Credit Corporation to make expenditures, within specified limits, to carry out their respective programs.

Title II: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for rural development assistance as follows: (1) Office of Rural Development Policy; (2) Farmers Home Administration; (3) Rural Electrification Administration; (4) Soil Conservation Services; and (5) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service.

Title III: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates funds for programs of the Food and Nutrition Service, including the food stamp program. Sets aside funds to extend and continue through the 1984-1985 school year an alternative assistance (cash and credit rather than commodity) school lunch pilot study. Sets forth minimum ratably-reduced State nutrition education grants.

Provides additional funds for the elderly feeding program to pay for certain 1979 claims.

Appropriates funds for the Human Nutrition Information Services.

Title IV: International Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Foreign Agricultural Service (including an allotment from the Commodity Credit Corporation); (2) Public Law 480 (financing the sale of agricultural commodities for convertible foreign currencies); and (3) the Office of International Cooperation and Development.

Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Food and Drug Administration; (2) the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (3) the Farm Credit Administration (with limitations on administrative expenses).

Title VI: General Provisions - Limits the expenditure of specified appropriations made by this Act.

Prohibits the use of funds for the production of marihuana or other prohibited drug-producing plants for illegal use.

Limits the amount of transfers to the Working Capital Fund for the purpose of accumulating growth capital for data services and National Finance Center operations.

Prohibits the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce any regulation which has been disapproved pursuant to any resolution of disapproval.

Provides that the certificates of beneficial ownership sold by the Farmers Home Administration in connection with specified insurance funds shall not be less than 75 percent of the value of loans closed during the fiscal year.

Prohibits the use of funds to carry out any activity related to phasing out the Resource Conservation and Development Program.

Prohibits the use of funds to prevent or interfere with the right and obligation of the Commodity Credit Corporation to sell surplus agricultural commodities in world trade at competitive prices.

Authorizes the provision of specified commodities to individuals in cases of hardship.

Prohibits the payment of any funds out of the Treasury to any private individual or corporation in satisfaction of a loan guarantee entered into by a Federal agency or corporation with respect to loans made and credits extended to the Polish People's Republic, unless: (1) the Republic has been declared to be in default of its debt to such individual or corporation; or (2) the President has provided a monthly written report to specified congressional leaders justifying any such payments during the previous month.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to initiate construction on not less than 20 new projects under the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act and not less than five new projects under the Flood Control Act.

Prohibits the use of any funds to relocate the Hawaii State office of the Farmers Home Administration from Hilo, Hawaii, to Honolulu, Hawaii.

Requires the Secretary to use a specified amount of Commodity Credit Corporation funds or commodities to increase U.S. agricultural exports, including perishables, particularly in markets where U.S. products face foreign subsidized competition.