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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 5526
Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other
purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 24, 2000
Mr. CALLAHAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Appropriations
A BILL
Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financ-
ing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2001, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other pur-
poses, namely:
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et Act of 1974: Provided further, That such sums shall re-
main available until September 30, 2019 for the disburse-
ment of direct loans, loan guarantees, insurance and tied-
aid grants obligated in fiscal years 2001, 2002, 2003, and
2004: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-
priated by this Act or any prior Act appropriating funds
for foreign operations, export financing, or related pro-
grams for tied-aid credits or grants may be used for any
other purpose except through the regular notification proce-
dures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided fur-
ther, That funds appropriated by this paragraph are made
available notwithstanding section 2(b)(2) of the Export Im-
port Bank Act of 1945, in connection with the purchase
or lease of any product by any East European country,
any Baltic State or any agency or national thereof.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
For administrative expenses to carry out the direct
and guaranteed loan and insurance programs, including
hire of passenger motor vehicles and services as authorized
by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and not to exceed $30,000 for official
reception and representation expenses for members of the
Board of Directors, $62,000,000: Provided, That necessary
expenses (including special services performed on a contract
or fee basis, but not including other personal services) in
connection with the collection of moneys owed the Export-
Import Bank, repossession or sale of pledged collateral or
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other assets acquired by the Export-Import Bank in satis-
faction of moneys owed the Export-Import Bank, or the in-
vestigation or appraisal of any property, or the evaluation
of the legal or technical aspects of any transaction for which
an application for a loan, guarantee or insurance commit-
ment has been made, shall be considered nonadministrative
expenses for the purposes of this heading: Provided further,
That, notwithstanding subsection (b) of section 117 of the
Export Enhancement Act of 1992, subsection (a) thereof
shall remain in effect until October 1, 2001.
OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION
NONCREDIT ACCOUNT
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation is au-
thorized to make, without regard to fiscal year limitations,
as provided by 31 U.S.C. 9104, such expenditures and com-
mitments within the limits of funds available to it and in
accordance with law as may be necessary: Provided, That
the amount available for administrative expenses to carry
out the credit and insurance programs (including an
amount for official reception and representation expenses
which shall not exceed $35,000) shall not exceed
$38,000,000: Provided further, That project-specific trans-
action costs, including direct and indirect costs incurred
in claims settlements, and other direct costs associated with
services provided to specific investors or potential investors
pursuant to section 234 of the Foreign Assistance Act of
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1961, shall not be considered administrative expenses for
the purposes of this heading.
PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans,
$24,000,000, as authorized by section 234 of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 to be derived by transfer from the
Overseas Private Investment Corporation noncredit ac-
count: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modi-
fying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That
such sums shall be available for direct loan obligations and
loan guaranty commitments incurred or made during fiscal
years 2001 and 2002: Provided further, That such sums
shall remain available through fiscal year 2010 for the dis-
bursement of direct and guaranteed loans obligated in fiscal
years 2001 and 2002: Provided further, That in addition,
such sums as may be necessary for administrative expenses
to carry out the credit program may be derived from
amounts available for administrative expenses to carry out
the credit and insurance programs in the Overseas Private
Investment Corporation Noncredit Account and merged
with said account.
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FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT
TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of
section 661 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
$50,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2002.
TITLE II—BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT
For expenses necessary to enable the President to carry
out the provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
and for other purposes, to remain available until September
30, 2001, unless otherwise specified herein, as follows:
AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
CHILD SURVIVAL AND DISEASE PROGRAMS FUND
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of
chapters 1 and 10 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961, for child survival, basic education, assistance to
combat tropical and other infectious diseases, and related
activities, in addition to funds otherwise available for such
purposes, $963,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That this amount shall be made available for such
activities as: (1) immunization programs; (2) oral rehydra-
tion programs; (3) health and nutrition programs, and re-
lated education programs, which address the needs of moth-
ers and children; (4) water and sanitation programs; (5)
assistance for displaced and orphaned children; (6) pro-
grams for the prevention, treatment, and control of, and
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research on, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, polio, malaria and
other infectious diseases; and (7) basic education programs
for children: Provided further, That none of the funds ap-
propriated under this heading may be made available for
nonproject assistance, except that funds may be made avail-
able for such assistance for basic education and ongoing
health programs: Provided further, That of the funds appro-
priated under this heading, not to exceed $125,000, in addi-
tion to funds otherwise available for such purposes, may
be used to monitor and provide oversight of child survival,
maternal health, and infectious disease programs: Provided
further, That the following amounts should be allocated as
follows: $295,000,000 for child survival and maternal
health; $30,000,000 for vulnerable children; $300,000,000
for HIV/AIDS; $125,000,000 for other infectious diseases;
$103,000,000 
for 
children’s 
basic 
education; 
and
$110,000,000 for UNICEF: Provided further, That of the
funds appropriated under this heading, up to $50,000,000
may be made available for a United States contribution to
the Global Fund for Children’s Vaccines, up to $10,000,000
may be made available for the International AIDS Vaccine
Initiative, and up to $20,000,000 may be made available
for a United States contribution to an international HIV/
AIDS fund as authorized by subtitle B, title I of Public
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Law 106–264, or a comparable international HIV/AIDS
fund.
DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of
sections 103 through 106, and chapter 10 of part I of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, title V of the International
Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 (Public
Law 96–533) and the provisions of section 401 of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1969, $1,305,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2002: Provided, That of the
amount 
appropriated 
under 
this 
heading, 
up 
to
$12,000,000 may be made available for and apportioned
directly to the Inter-American Foundation: Provided fur-
ther, That of the amount appropriated under this heading,
up to $16,000,000 may be made available for the African
Development Foundation and shall be apportioned directly
to that agency: Provided further, That none of the funds
made available in this Act nor any unobligated balances
from prior appropriations may be made available to any
organization or program which, as determined by the Presi-
dent of the United States, supports or participates in the
management of a program of coercive abortion or involun-
tary sterilization: Provided further, That none of the funds
made available under this heading may be used to pay for
the performance of abortion as a method of family planning
or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions;
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health benefits and risks of the method chosen, including
those conditions that might render the use of the method
inadvisable and those adverse side effects known to be con-
sequent to the use of the method; and (5) the project shall
ensure that experimental contraceptive drugs and devices
and medical procedures are provided only in the context
of a scientific study in which participants are advised of
potential risks and benefits; and, not less than 60 days after
the date on which the Administrator of the United States
Agency for International Development determines that there
has been a violation of the requirements contained in para-
graph (1), (2), (3), or (5) of this proviso, or a pattern or
practice of violations of the requirements contained in para-
graph (4) of this proviso, the Administrator shall submit
to the Committee on International Relations and the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and to the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the Senate, a report containing
a description of such violation and the corrective action
taken by the Agency: Provided further, That in awarding
grants for natural family planning under section 104 of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 no applicant shall be
discriminated against because of such applicant’s religious
or conscientious commitment to offer only natural family
planning; and, additionally, all such applicants shall com-
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ply with the requirements of the previous proviso: Provided
further, That for purposes of this or any other Act author-
izing or appropriating funds for foreign operations, export
financing, and related programs, the term ‘‘motivate’’, as
it relates to family planning assistance, shall not be con-
strued to prohibit the provision, consistent with local law,
of information or counseling about all pregnancy options:
Provided further, That nothing in this paragraph shall be
construed to alter any existing statutory prohibitions
against abortion under section 104 of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961: Provided further, That none of the funds
appropriated under this heading may be made available for
any activity which is in contravention to the Convention
on International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and
Fauna (CITES): Provided further, That of the funds appro-
priated under this heading that are made available for as-
sistance programs for displaced and orphaned children and
victims of war, not to exceed $25,000, in addition to funds
otherwise available for such purposes, may be used to mon-
itor and provide oversight of such programs: Provided fur-
ther, That of the aggregate amount of the funds appro-
priated by this Act to carry out part I of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 and the Support for East European De-
mocracy (SEED) Act of 1989, not less than $310,000,000
should be made available for agriculture and rural develop-
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ment programs of which $30,000,000 should be made avail-
able for plant biotechnology research and development: Pro-
vided further, That not less than $2,300,000 should be made
available for core support for the International Fertilizer
Development Center: Provided further, That of the funds
appropriated under this heading, not less than $5,200,000
shall be made available to AmeriCares for the construction,
rehabilitation, and operation of community-based primary
healthcare facilities in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala,
and El Salvador: Provided further, That of the funds ap-
propriated under this heading, not less than $500,000
should be made available for support of the United States
Telecommunications Training Institute: Provided further,
That of the funds appropriated under this heading, not less
than $17,000,000 should be made available for the Amer-
ican Schools and Hospitals Abroad program: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds appropriated under this heading,
not less than $2,000,000 should be available to support an
international media training center.
CYPRUS
Of the funds appropriated under the headings ‘‘Devel-
opment Assistance’’ and ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, not
less than $15,000,000 shall be made available for Cyprus
to be used only for scholarships, administrative support of
the scholarship program, bicommunal projects, and meas-
ures aimed at reunification of the island and designed to
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reduce tensions and promote peace and cooperation between
the two communities on Cyprus.
LEBANON
Of the funds appropriated under the headings ‘‘Devel-
opment Assistance’’ and ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, not
less than $35,000,000 shall be made available for Lebanon
to be used, among other programs, for scholarships and di-
rect support of the American educational institutions in
Lebanon.
BURMA
Of the funds appropriated under the headings ‘‘Eco-
nomic Support Fund’’ and ‘‘Development Assistance’’, not
less than $6,500,000 shall be made available to support de-
mocracy activities in Burma, democracy and humani-
tarian activities along the Burma-Thailand border, and for
Burmese student groups and other organizations located
outside Burma: Provided, That funds made available for
Burma-related activities under this heading may be made
available notwithstanding any other provision of law: Pro-
vided further, That the provision of such funds shall be
made available subject to the regular notification proce-
dures of the Committees on Appropriations.
CONSERVATION FUND
Of the funds made available under the headings ‘‘De-
velopment Assistance’’ and ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, not
less than $4,000,000 should be made available to support
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the preservation of habitats and related activities for endan-
gered wildlife.
PRIVATE AND VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS
None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act for development assistance may be
made available to any United States private and voluntary
organization, except any cooperative development organiza-
tion, which obtains less than 20 percent of its total annual
funding for international activities from sources other than
the United States Government: Provided, That the Adminis-
trator of the Agency for International Development, after
informing the Committees on Appropriations, may, on a
case-by-case basis, waive the restriction contained in this
paragraph, after taking into account the effectiveness of the
overseas development activities of the organization, its level
of volunteer support, its financial viability and stability,
and the degree of its dependence for its financial support
on the agency.
Funds appropriated or otherwise made available
under title II of this Act should be made available to private
and voluntary organizations at a level which is at least
equivalent to the level provided in fiscal year 1995.
INTERNATIONAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE
For necessary expenses for international disaster relief,
rehabilitation, and reconstruction assistance pursuant to
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section 491 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amend-
ed, $165,000,000, to remain available until expended.
TRANSITION INITIATIVES
For necessary expenses for international disaster reha-
bilitation and reconstruction assistance pursuant to section
491 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, $50,000,000, to
remain available until expended, to support transition to
democracy and to long-term development of countries in cri-
sis: Provided, That such support may include assistance to
develop, strengthen, or preserve democratic institutions and
processes, revitalize basic infrastructure, and foster the
peaceful resolution of conflict: Provided further, That the
United States Agency for International Development shall
submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations at
least 5 days prior to beginning a new program of assist-
ance.
MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
For the cost of direct loans and loan guarantees,
$1,500,000, as authorized by section 108 of the Foreign As-
sistance Act of 1961: Provided, That such costs shall be as
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974: Provided further, That guarantees of loans made
under this heading in support of microenterprise activities
may guarantee up to 70 percent of the principal amount
of any such loans notwithstanding section 108 of the For-
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eign Assistance Act of 1961. In addition, for administrative
expenses to carry out programs under this heading,
$500,000, all of which may be transferred to and merged
with the appropriation for Operating Expenses of the Agen-
cy for International Development: Provided further, That
funds made available under this heading shall remain
available until September 30, 2002.
DEVELOPMENT CREDIT PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct loans and loan guarantees,
$1,500,000, as authorized by section 635 of the Foreign As-
sistance Act of 1961: Provided, That such funds shall be
made available only for urban and environmental pro-
grams: Provided further, That for the cost of direct loans
and loan guarantees, up to $5,000,000 of funds appro-
priated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Development Assist-
ance’’, may be transferred to and merged with funds appro-
priated under this heading to be made available for the pur-
poses of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Pro-
vided further, That such costs shall be as defined in section
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided fur-
ther, That the provisions of section 107A(d) (relating to
general provisions applicable to the Development Credit Au-
thority) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as contained
in section 306 of H.R. 1486 as reported by the House Com-
mittee on International Relations on May 9, 1997, shall
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be applicable to direct loans and loan guarantees provided
under this heading. In addition, for administrative ex-
penses to carry out credit programs administered by the
Agency for International Development, $4,000,000, all of
which may be transferred to and merged with the appro-
priation for Operating Expenses of the Agency for Inter-
national Development: Provided further, That funds appro-
priated under this heading shall remain available until
September 30, 2002.
PAYMENT TO THE FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT AND
DISABILITY FUND
For payment to the ‘‘Foreign Service Retirement and
Disability Fund’’, as authorized by the Foreign Service Act
of 1980, $44,489,000.
OPERATING EXPENSES OF THE AGENCY FOR
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of
section 667, $520,000,000: Provided, That none of the funds
appropriated under this heading may be made available to
finance the construction (including architect and engineer-
ing services), purchase, or long term lease of offices for use
by the Agency for International Development, unless the
Administrator has identified such proposed construction
(including architect and engineering services), purchase, or
long term lease of offices in a report submitted to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations at least 15 days prior to the obli-
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gation of these funds for such purposes: Provided further,
That the previous proviso shall not apply where the total
cost of construction (including architect and engineering
services), purchase, or long term lease of offices does not ex-
ceed $1,000,000.
OPERATING
EXPENSES
OF
THE
AGENCY
FOR
INTER-
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GEN-
ERAL
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of
section 667, $27,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2002, which sum shall be available for the Office
of the Inspector General of the Agency for International De-
velopment.
OTHER BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUND
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of
chapter 4 of part II, $2,295,000,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2002: Provided, That of the funds ap-
propriated under this heading, not less than $840,000,000
shall be available only for Israel, which sum shall be avail-
able on a grant basis as a cash transfer and shall be dis-
bursed within 30 days of the enactment of this Act or by
October 31, 2000, whichever is later: Provided further, That
not less than $695,000,000 shall be available only for
Egypt, which sum shall be provided on a grant basis, and
of which sum cash transfer assistance shall be provided with
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the understanding that Egypt will undertake significant
economic reforms which are additional to those which were
undertaken in previous fiscal years, and of which not less
than $200,000,000 shall be provided as Commodity Import
Program assistance: Provided further, That in exercising
the authority to provide cash transfer assistance for Israel,
the President shall ensure that the level of such assistance
does not cause an adverse impact on the total level of non-
military exports from the United States to such country
and that Israel enters into a side letter agreement in an
amount proportional to the fiscal year 1999 agreement:
Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under this
heading, not less than $150,000,000 should be made avail-
able for assistance for Jordan: Provided further, That of the
funds appropriated under this heading, not less than
$25,000,000 shall be made available for assistance for East
Timor of which up to $1,000,000 may be transferred to and
merged with the appropriation for Operating Expenses of
the Agency for International Development: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds appropriated under this heading,
in addition to funds otherwise made available for Indo-
nesia, not less than $5,000,000 should be made available
for economic rehabilitation and related activities in Aceh,
Indonesia: Provided further, That funds made available in
the previous proviso may be transferred to and merged with
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the appropriation for Transition Initiatives: Provided fur-
ther, That none of the funds appropriated under this head-
ing shall be obligated for regional or global programs, except
as provided through the regular notification procedures of
the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That
of the funds made available under this heading not less than
$12,000,000 should be made available for Mongolia: Pro-
vided further, That up to $10,000,000 of the funds appro-
priated under this heading may be used, notwithstanding
any other provision of law, to provide assistance to the Na-
tional Democratic Alliance of Sudan to strengthen its abil-
ity to protect civilians from attacks, slave raids, and aerial
bombardment by the Sudanese Government forces and its
militia allies, and the provision of such funds shall be sub-
ject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees
on Appropriations: Provided further, That in the previous
proviso, the term ‘‘assistance’’ includes non-lethal, non-food
aid such as blankets, medicine, fuel, mobile clinics, water
drilling equipment, communications equipment to notify
civilians of aerial bombardment, non-military vehicles,
tents, and shoes.
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR IRELAND
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of
chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
$25,000,000, which shall be available for the United States
contribution to the International Fund for Ireland and
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shall be made available in accordance with the provisions
of the Anglo-Irish Agreement Support Act of 1986 (Public
Law 99–415): Provided, That such amount shall be ex-
pended at the minimum rate necessary to make timely pay-
ment for projects and activities: Provided further, That
funds made available under this heading shall remain
available until September 30, 2002.
ASSISTANCE FOR EASTERN EUROPE AND THE BALTIC
STATES
(a) For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Support for
East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989,
$600,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
2002, which shall be available, notwithstanding any other
provision of law, for assistance and for related programs
for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States: Provided, That
of the funds appropriated under this heading not less than
$5,000,000 shall be made available for assistance for the
Baltic States: Provided further, That funds made available
for assistance for Kosova from funds appropriated under
this heading and under the headings ‘‘Economic Support
Fund’’ and ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law En-
forcement’’ shall not exceed 15 percent of the total resources
pledged by all donors for calendar year 2001 for assistance
for Kosova as of March 31, 2001: Provided further, That
of the funds made available under this heading for Kosova,