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States, including an analysis of the estimated or projected 
costs associated with such meetings. 
TITLE 
V—UNITED 
STATES 
INTERNATIONAL 
BROAD-
CASTING 
SEC. 
501. 
AUTHORIZATION 
OF 
APPROPRIATIONS 
FOR 
INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING. 
The following amounts are authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out United States international broad-
casting activities under the United States Information and 
Educational Exchange Act of 1948, the Radio Broadcasting 
to Cuba Act, the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act, the 
United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994, and 
the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, 
and to carry out other authorities in law consistent with 
such purposes: 
(1) For ‘‘International Broadcasting Oper-
ations’’, $732,187,000 for fiscal year 2010 and such 
sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2011. 
(2) For ‘‘Broadcasting Capital Improvements’’, 
$13,263,000 for fiscal year 2010 and such sums as 
may be necessary for fiscal year 2011. 
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SEC. 502. PERSONAL SERVICES CONTRACTING PROGRAM. 
Section 504 of the Foreign Relations Authorization 
Act, Fiscal Year 2003, (Public Law 107–228; 22 U.S.C. 
6206 note), is amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘PILOT’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘pilot’’; and 
(B) adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ‘‘An individual hired as a personal 
service contractor pursuant to this section shall 
not, by virtue of such hiring, be considered to be 
an employee of the United States Government for 
purposes of any law administered by the Office 
of Personnel Management.’’; 
(3) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘60’’ and 
inserting ‘‘200’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(5) The annual salary rate for personal services 
contractors may not exceed the rate for level IV of the 
Executive Schedule.’’; and 
(4) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘2009’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2011’’. 
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SEC. 503. RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY PAY PARITY. 
Section 308(h)(1)(C) of the United States Inter-
national 
Broadcasting 
Act 
of 
1994 
(22 
U.S.C. 
6207(h)(1)(C)) is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘and one employee abroad’’ 
after ‘‘D.C.’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘III’’ and inserting ‘‘II’’; and 
(3) by striking ‘‘5314’’ and inserting ‘‘5313’’. 
SEC. 504. EMPLOYMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL BROAD-
CASTING. 
Section 804(1) of the United States Information and 
Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1474(1)) is 
amended by inserting after ‘‘suitably qualified United 
States citizens’’ the following: ‘‘(for purposes of this para-
graph, the term ‘suitably qualified United States citizens’ 
means those United States citizen applicants who are equal-
ly or better qualified than non-United States citizen appli-
cants)’’. 
SEC. 505. DOMESTIC RELEASE OF THE VOICE OF AMERICA 
FILM ENTITLED ‘‘A FATEFUL HARVEST’’. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 208 of the 
Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 
and 1987 (22 U.S.C. 1461–1a) and section 501(b) of the 
United States Information and Educational Exchange Act 
of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1461(b)), the Director of the Inter-
national Broadcasting Bureau shall provide a master copy 
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of the film entitled ‘‘A Fateful Harvest’’ to the Archivist 
of the United States for domestic release in accordance with 
subsection (b). 
(b) DOMESTIC RELEASE.—Upon evidence that nec-
essary United States rights and licenses have been secured 
by the person seeking domestic release of the film referred 
to in subsection (a), the Archivist shall— 
(1) deposit the film in the National Archives of 
the United States; and 
(2) make copies of the film available for purchase 
and public viewing within the United States. 
SEC. 506. ESTABLISHING PERMANENT AUTHORITY FOR 
RADIO FREE ASIA. 
Section 309 of the United States International Broad-
casting Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 6208) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c)(2), by striking ‘‘, and shall 
further specify that funds to carry out the activities 
of Radio Free Asia may not be available after Sep-
tember 30, 2010’’; 
(2) by striking subsection (f); and 
(3) by redesignating subsections (g) and (h) as 
subsection (f) and (g), respectively. 
TITLE VI—PEACE CORPS 
SEC. 601. FINDINGS; STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
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(1) On October 14, 1960, then Senator John F. 
Kennedy addressed students on the steps of the Uni-
versity of Michigan Union to enlist their effort to 
make the world a better place by serving their country 
abroad. 
(2) On March 1, 1961, then President John F. 
Kennedy signed an Executive Order establishing a 
Peace Corps that was ‘‘designed to permit our people 
to exercise more fully their responsibilities in the 
great common cause of world development’’. 
(3) Since its establishment, the Peace Corps has 
been guided by its mission to promote world peace 
and friendship and has sought to fulfill the following 
three goals: 
(A) To help the people of interested coun-
tries in meeting their needs for trained men and 
women. 
(B) To promote a better understanding of 
Americans on the part of the peoples served. 
(C) To help promote a better understanding 
of other peoples on the part of Americans. 
(4) Over the last 48 years, nearly 200,000 Peace 
Corps volunteers have served in 139 countries. 
(5) The Peace Corps is the world’s premier inter-
national service organization dedicated to promoting 
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sustainable grassroots development by working with 
host communities in the areas of agriculture, business 
development, education, the environment, health and 
HIV/AIDS, and youth. 
(6) The Peace Corps remains committed to send-
ing well trained and well supported Peace Corps vol-
unteers overseas to promote peace, friendship, cross- 
cultural awareness, and mutual understanding be-
tween the United States and other countries. The 
Peace Corps has an impressive record of engendering 
good will through the service that American volun-
teers provide. 
(7) Recognizing the Peace Corps’ unique and ef-
fective role in promoting volunteer service by Amer-
ican citizens, President Obama and Vice President 
Biden announced their intent to double the size of 
Peace Corps in an expeditious and effective manner. 
(8) Over 13,000 Americans applied in 2008 to 
volunteer their service to serve the world’s poorest 
communities in the Peace Corps, a 16 percent in-
crease over the nearly 11,000 applications received in 
2007. 
(9) Under current funding levels, the Peace 
Corps is able to provide new placements for only one- 
third of the American applicants seeking the oppor-
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tunity to serve their country and the world. At the 
end of fiscal year 2008, there were nearly 8,000 Peace 
Corps volunteers serving in 76 countries around the 
world. 
(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It is the policy of the 
United States to— 
(1) double the number of Peace Corps volunteers 
and strengthen and improve the Peace Corps and its 
programs; 
(2) improve the coordination of Peace Corps pro-
grams with development programs of other Federal 
departments and agencies, without diminishing the 
independence of the Peace Corps; and 
(3) promote all types of volunteerism by Ameri-
cans in the developing world. 
SEC. 602. AMENDMENTS TO THE PEACE CORPS ACT. 
(a) PEACE CORPS RESPONSE PROGRAM.—The Peace 
Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.) is amended by inserting 
after section 5 the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 5A. PEACE CORPS RESPONSE PROGRAM. 
‘‘The Director of the Peace Corps is authorized to es-
tablish a special program that assigns returned Peace Corps 
volunteers or other volunteers to provide short-term develop-
ment or other relief assistance or to otherwise be assigned 
or made available to any entity referred to in subsection 
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(a)(1) of section 10. The term of such service shall be less 
than the term of service of a volunteer under section 5. Ex-
cept to the extent determined necessary and appropriate by 
the Director, the program established under this section 
may not cause a diminution in the number or quality of 
projects or volunteers assigned to longer term assignments 
under section 5.’’. 
(b) COORDINATION OF PEACE CORPS PROGRAMS.— 
Paragraph (2) of section 4(c) of the Peace Corps Act (22 
U.S.C. 2503(c)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(2) The Director of the Peace Corps shall, as appro-
priate and to the maximum extent practicable without di-
minishing any program or operational independence, work 
with the heads of Federal departments and agencies to iden-
tify synergies and avoid duplication of efforts with Peace 
Corps programs in the field and at headquarters.’’. 
(c) READJUSTMENT ALLOWANCE.—Subsection (c) of 
section 5 of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2504(c)) is 
amended, in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘$125’’ and in-
serting ‘‘$225’’. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
3(b)(1) of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2502(b)(1)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘$270,000,000’’ and all that follows 
through the period at the end and inserting the following: 
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‘‘$450,000,000 for fiscal year 2010 and such sums as may 
be necessary for fiscal year 2011.’’. 
SEC. 603. REPORT. 
(a) PEACE CORPS RESPONSE PROGRAM REPORT.— 
Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the Director of the Peace Corps shall submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees a report on the 
Peace Corps Response Program or any similar program de-
veloped under in accordance with section 5A of the Peace 
Corps Act (as added by section 602(a) of this Act), includ-
ing information on the following: 
(1) The achievements and challenges of the Peace 
Corps Response Program or any similar program 
since its inception as the Peace Corps Crisis Corps in 
1996. 
(2) The goals, objectives, program areas, and 
growth projections for the Peace Corps Response Pro-
gram or any similar program from fiscal year 2010 
through fiscal year 2011. 
(3) The process and standards for selecting part-
ner organizations and projects for the Peace Corps 
Response Program or any similar program. 
(4) The standards and requirements used to se-
lect volunteers for service under the Peace Corps Re-
sponse Program or any similar program. 
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(5) The measures used to evaluate projects of the 
Peace Corps Response Program or any similar pro-
gram and the effectiveness of volunteers assigned to 
such Program or similar program at achieving iden-
tified objectives. 
(b) ANNUAL REPORTS.—Not later than one year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act and annually there-
after, the Director of the Peace Corps shall submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees a report on progress 
made in carrying out this title, including efforts to 
strengthen coordination between the Peace Corps and other 
Federal departments and agencies carrying out develop-
ment assistance programs (as required under paragraph (2) 
of section 4(c) of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2503(c)), 
as amended by section 602(b) of this Act). 
TITLE 
VII—SENATOR 
PAUL 
SIMON STUDY ABROAD FOUN-
DATION ACT OF 2009 
SEC. 701. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Senator Paul Simon 
Study Abroad Foundation Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 702. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) According to former President George W. 
Bush, ‘‘America’s leadership and national security 
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(4) to create greater cultural understanding of 
the United States by exposing foreign students and 
their families to United States students in countries 
that have not traditionally hosted large numbers of 
United States students. 
SEC. 704. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) 
APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional commit-
tees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate. 
(2) BOARD.—The term ‘‘Board’’ means the 
Board of Directors of the Foundation established pur-
suant to section 705(d). 
(3) CHIEF
EXECUTIVE
OFFICER.—The term 
‘‘Chief Executive Officer’’ means the chief executive of-
ficer of the Foundation appointed pursuant to section 
705(c). 
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