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National Police who have been credibly alleged to have com-
mitted serious crimes, including drug trafficking and human 
rights violations, have been suspended and the Haitian Govern-
ment is cooperating in a reform and restructuring plan for 
the Haitian National Police and the reform of the judicial 
system as called for in United Nations Security Council Resolu-
tion 1608 adopted on June 22, 2005. 
(c) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.—Of the funds appropriated by this 
Act under the headings ‘‘Global Health and Child Survival’’ and 
‘‘Development Assistance’’, not less than $23,000,000 shall be made 
available for assistance for the Dominican Republic, of which not 
less than $5,000,000 shall be made available for basic health care, 
nutrition, sanitation, education, and shelter for migrant workers 
and other residents of batey communities. 
(d) ASSISTANCE FOR GUATEMALA.— 
(1) Of the funds appropriated by this Act under the heading 
‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ that are available for assistance for 
Guatemala, not less than $4,000,000 shall be made available 
for a United States contribution to the International Commis-
sion Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). 
(2) Funds appropriated by this Act under the heading 
‘‘International Military Education and Training’’ (IMET) that 
are available for assistance for Guatemala, other than for 
expanded IMET, may be made available only for the Guate-
malan Air Force, Navy and Army Corps of Engineers: Provided, 
That assistance for the Guatemalan Army Corps of Engineers 
shall only be available for training to improve disaster response 
capabilities and to participate in international peacekeeping 
operations: Provided further, That such funds may be made 
available only if the Secretary of State certifies that the Guate-
malan Air Force, Navy and Army Corps of Engineers are 
respecting human rights and are cooperating with civilian 
judicial investigations and prosecutions of current and retired 
military personnel who have been credibly alleged to have 
committed violations of human rights. 
(3) Of the funds appropriated by this Act under the heading 
‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’, not more than $500,000 
may be made available for the Guatemalan Air Force and 
Navy: Provided, That such funds may be made available only 
if the Secretary of State certifies that the Guatemalan Air 
Force and Navy are respecting human rights and are cooper-
ating with civilian judicial investigations and prosecutions of 
current and retired military personnel who have been credibly 
alleged to have committed violations of human rights, and 
the Guatemalan Armed Forces are fully cooperating (including 
access for investigators, the provision of documents and other 
evidence, and testimony of witnesses) with the CICIG. 
(e) FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS.—Of the funds appropriated by 
this Act under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, not less 
than $10,000,000 shall be made available for labor and environ-
mental capacity building activities relating to the free trade agree-
ments with countries of Central America and the Dominican 
Republic. 
(f) NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT.—Funds made available in this 
Act for assistance for Guatemala and Haiti under the headings 
referred to in this section shall be subject to the regular notification 
procedures of the Committees on Appropriations.
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ZIMBABWE 
SEC. 673. The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the 
United States executive director to each international financial 
institution to vote against any extension by the respective institu-
tion of any loans to the Government of Zimbabwe, except to meet 
basic human needs or to promote democracy, unless the Secretary 
of State determines and certifies to the Committees on Appropria-
tions that the rule of law has been restored in Zimbabwe, including 
respect for ownership and title to property, freedom of speech and 
association. 
DEVELOPMENT GRANTS PROGRAM 
SEC. 674. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PROGRAM.—There is estab-
lished within the United States Agency for International Develop-
ment (USAID) a Development Grants Program (DGP) to provide 
small grants to United States and indigenous nongovernmental 
organizations for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of 
chapters 1 and 10 of part I and chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961. 
(b) ELIGIBILITY FOR GRANTS.—Grants from the DGP shall be 
made only for proposals of nongovernmental organizations. 
(c) COMPETITION.—Grants made pursuant to the authority of 
this section shall be provided through an open, transparent and 
competitive process. 
(d) SIZE OF PROGRAM AND INDIVIDUAL GRANTS.— 
(1) Of the funds appropriated by this Act to carry out 
chapter 1 of part I and chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961, not less than $50,000,000 shall be 
made available for purposes of this section: Provided, That 
not more than 50 percent of this amount shall be derived 
from funds appropriated to carry out chapter 1 of part I of 
such Act. 
(2) No individual organization can receive grants, or grant 
amendments, made pursuant to this section in excess of 
$2,000,000. 
(e) AVAILABILITY
OF OTHER FUNDS.—Funds made available 
under this section are in addition to other funds available for 
such purposes including funds designated by this Act by section 
665. 
(f) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘non-
governmental organization’’ means a private voluntary organization, 
and shall not include entities owned in whole or in part by a 
government or governmental entity. 
(g) REPORT.—Within 90 days from the date of enactment of 
this Act, and after consultation with the Committees on Appropria-
tions, the Administrator of USAID shall submit a report to those 
Committees describing the procedures and mechanisms USAID will 
use to implement this section. 
DISASTER ASSISTANCE AND RECOVERY 
SEC. 675. Funds made available to the Comptroller General 
under chapter 4 of title I of the Emergency Supplemental Appropria-
tions Act (Public Law 106–31; 113 Stat. 69) and section 593 of 
the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Programs Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106–429; 114 Stat. 1900A–
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59) to monitor the provisions of assistance to address the effects 
of hurricanes in Central America and the Caribbean and the earth-
quake in Colombia, and to monitor the earthquake relief and 
reconstruction efforts in El Salvador under section 561 of the For-
eign Operations, Export Financing, and Programs Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2002 (Public Law 107–115; 115 Stat. 2162) shall 
also be available to the Comptroller General to monitor any other 
disaster assistance and recovery effort. 
UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 
MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 676. (a) AUTHORITY.—Up to $81,000,000 of the funds made 
available in title III of this Act to carry out the provisions of 
part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, including funds appro-
priated under the heading ‘‘Assistance for Eastern Europe and 
the Baltic States’’, may be used by the United States Agency for 
International Development (USAID) to hire and employ individuals 
in the United States and overseas on a limited appointment basis 
pursuant to the authority of sections 308 and 309 of the Foreign 
Service Act of 1980. 
(b) RESTRICTIONS.— 
(1) The number of individuals hired in any fiscal year 
pursuant to the authority contained in subsection (a) may not 
exceed 175. 
(2) The authority to hire individuals contained in subsection 
(a) shall expire on September 30, 2009. 
(c) CONDITIONS.—The authority of subsection (a) may only be 
used to the extent that an equivalent number of positions that 
are filled by personal services contractors or other non-direct hire 
employees of USAID, who are compensated with funds appropriated 
to carry out part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, including 
funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Assistance for Eastern 
Europe and the Baltic States’’, are eliminated. 
(d) PRIORITY SECTORS.—In exercising the authority of this sec-
tion, primary emphasis shall be placed on enabling USAID to meet 
personnel positions in technical skill areas currently encumbered 
by contractor or other non-direct hire personnel. 
(e) CONSULTATIONS.—The USAID Administrator shall consult 
with the Committees on Appropriations at least on a quarterly 
basis concerning the implementation of this section. 
(f) PROGRAM ACCOUNT CHARGED.—The account charged for the 
cost of an individual hired and employed under the authority of 
this section shall be the account to which such individual’s respon-
sibilities primarily relate. Funds made available to carry out this 
section may be transferred to and merged and consolidated with 
funds appropriated for ‘‘Operating Expenses of the United States 
Agency for International Development’’. 
(g) MANAGEMENT REFORM PILOT.—Of the funds made available 
in subsection (a), USAID may use, in addition to funds otherwise 
available for such purposes, up to $15,000,000 to fund overseas 
support costs of members of the Foreign Service with a Foreign 
Service rank of four or below: Provided, That such authority is 
only used to reduce USAID’s reliance on overseas personal services 
contractors or other non-direct hire employees compensated with 
funds appropriated to carry out part I of the Foreign Assistance
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Act of 1961, including funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Assist-
ance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States’’. 
(h) DISASTER SURGE CAPACITY.—Funds appropriated under title 
III of this Act to carry out part I of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961, including funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Assistance 
for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States’’, may be used, in addition 
to funds otherwise available for such purposes, for the cost 
(including the support costs) of individuals detailed to or employed 
by the United States Agency for International Development whose 
primary responsibility is to carry out programs in response to 
natural disasters. 
OPIC TRANSFER AUTHORITY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 677. Whenever the President determines that it is in 
furtherance of the purposes of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
up to a total of $20,000,000 of the funds appropriated under title 
III of this Act may be transferred to and merged with funds appro-
priated by this Act for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation 
Program Account, to be subject to the terms and conditions of 
that account: Provided, That such funds shall not be available 
for administrative expenses of the Overseas Private Investment 
Corporation: Provided further, That designated funding levels in 
this Act shall not be transferred pursuant to this section: Provided 
further, That the exercise of such authority shall be subject to 
the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropria-
tions. 
REPORTING REQUIREMENT 
SEC. 678. The Secretary of State shall provide the Committees 
on Appropriations, not later than April 1, 2008, and for each fiscal 
quarter, a report in writing on the uses of funds made available 
under the headings ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’, ‘‘Inter-
national Military Education and Training’’, and ‘‘Peacekeeping 
Operations’’: Provided, That such report shall include a description 
of the obligation and expenditure of funds, and the specific country 
in receipt of, and the use or purpose of the assistance provided 
by such funds. 
INDONESIA 
SEC. 679. (a) Of the funds appropriated by this Act under 
the 
heading 
‘‘Foreign 
Military 
Financing 
Program’’ 
up 
to 
$15,700,000 may be made available for assistance for Indonesia 
as follows— 
(1) Of the amount provided in subsection (a), $13,000,000 
may be made available upon enactment of this Act. 
(2) Of the amount provided in subsection (a), $2,700,000 
may not be made available until the Secretary of State reports 
to the Committees on Appropriations— 
(A) on the steps taken by the Government of Indonesia 
on the following— 
(i) prosecution and punishment, in a manner 
proportional to the crime, for members of the Armed 
Forces who have been credibly alleged to have com-
mitted gross violations of human rights in Timor-Leste