An amendment to require the Department of Agriculture, at the request of a producer or processor, to test ruminants, ruminant products, and ruminant by-products for the presence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy subject to reimbursement by the producer or processor of the costs incurred by the Department to conduct the tests.

Add at the end (before the short title), the following new section:

Sec. 7__. The Department of Agriculture, at the request of a producer or processor, shall test ruminants, ruminant products, and ruminant by-products for the presence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, subject to reimbursement by the producer or processor of the costs incurred by the Department to conduct the test, and none of the funds made available in this Act may be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel of the Department to enforce any regulatory prohibition on such testing by the Department of Agriculture of ruminants, ruminant products, or ruminant by-products for the presence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.