provision of such funds shall be made available subject to
the regular notification procedures of the Committees on
Appropriations.
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 organi-
zation, which obtains less than 20 per centum of its total
annual funding for international activities from sources
other than the United States Government: Provided, That
the requirements of the provisions of section 123(g) of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the provisions on pri-
vate and voluntary organizations in title II of the ‘‘Foreign
Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act,
1985’’ (as enacted in Public Law 98–473) shall be super-
seded by the provisions of this section, except that the au-
thority contained in the last sentence of section 123(g)
may be exercised by the Administrator with regard to the
requirements of this paragraph.
Funds appropriated or otherwise made available
under title II of this Act should be made available to pri-
vate and voluntary organizations at a level which is equiv-
alent to the level provided in fiscal year 1995. Such private
and voluntary organizations shall include those which op-
erate on a not-for-profit basis, receive contributions from
private sources, receive voluntary support from the public
and are deemed to be among the most cost-effective and
successful providers of development assistance.
INTERNATIONAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE
For necessary expenses for international disaster re-
lief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction assistance pursuant
to section 491 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as
amended, $181,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended.
HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO THE FORMER
YUGOSLAVIA
Of the funds appropriated in title II of this Act,
$40,000,000 should be available only for emergency hu-
manitarian assistance to the former Yugoslavia, of which
amount not less than $6,000,000 shall be available only
for humanitarian assistance to Kosova.
DEBT RESTRUCTURING
For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974, of modifying direct loans
and loan guarantees, as the President may determine, for
which funds have been appropriated or otherwise made
available for programs within the International Affairs
Budget Function 150, including the cost of selling, reduc-
ing, or canceling amounts, through debt buybacks and
swaps, owed to the United States as a result of
concessional loans made to eligible Latin American and
Caribbean countries, pursuant to part IV of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961, $10,000,000, to remain available
until expended.
MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
For the subsidy cost of direct loans and loan guaran-
tees, $1,500,000, as authorized by section 108 of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended: Provided, That
such costs shall be as defined in section 502 of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That
guarantees of loans made under this heading in support
of microenterprise activities may guarantee up to 70 per-
cent of the principal amount of any such loans notwith-
standing section 108 of the Foreign 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 Agency for International De-
velopment: Provided further, That funds made available
under this heading shall remain available until September
30, 1997.
HOUSING GUARANTY PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974, of guaranteed loans au-
thorized by sections 221 and 222 of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961, $4,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 1997: Provided, That these funds are avail-
able to subsidize loan principal, 100 percent of which shall
be guaranteed, pursuant to the authority of such sections.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out guar-
anteed loan programs, $7,000,000, all of which may be
transferred to and merged with the appropriation for Op-
erating Expenses of the Agency for International Develop-
ment: Provided further, That commitments to guarantee
loans under this heading may be entered into notwith-
standing the second and third sentences of section 222(a)
and, with regard to programs for Eastern Europe and pro-
grams for the benefit of South Africans disadvantaged by
apartheid, section 223(j) of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-
priated under this heading shall be obligated except
through the regular notification procedures of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations.
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, $43,914,000.
OPERATING EXPENSES OF THE AGENCY FOR
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of section 667, $465,750,000: Provided, That of this
amount not more than $1,475,000 may be made available
to pay for printing costs: Provided further, That none of
the funds appropriated by this Act for programs adminis-
tered by the Agency for International Development (AID)
may be used to finance printing costs of any report or
study (except feasibility, design, or evaluation reports or
studies) in excess of $25,000 without the approval of the
Administrator of the Agency or the Administrator’s des-
ignee: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other
provision of law, none of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be made available
for expenses necessary to relocate the Agency for Inter-
national Development, or any part of that agency, to the
building at the Federal Triangle in Washington, District
of Columbia.
OPERATING
EXPENSES
OF
THE
AGENCY
FOR
INTER-
NATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
OFFICE
OF
INSPECTOR
GENERAL
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of section 667, $30,200,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 1997, which sum shall be available for the Of-
fice of the Inspector General of the Agency for Inter-
national Development.
OTHER BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUND
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of chapter 4 of part II, $2,340,000,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 1997: Provided, That of the
funds appropriated under this heading, not less than
$1,200,000,000 shall be available only for Israel, which
sum shall be available on a grant basis as a cash transfer
and shall be disbursed within thirty days of enactment of
this Act or by October 31, 1995, whichever is later: Pro-
vided further, That not less than $815,000,000 shall be
available only for Egypt, which sum shall be provided on
a grant basis, and of which sum cash transfer assistance
may be provided, with the understanding that Eygpt will
undertake significant economic reforms which are addi-
tional 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: Pro-
vided further, That the Egyptian pound equivalent of
$85,000,000 generated from funds made available by this
paragraph or generated from funds appropriated under
this heading in prior appropriations Acts, may be made
available to the United States pursuant to the United
States-Egypt Economic, Technical and Related Assistance
Agreements of 1978, for the following activities under
such Agreements: the Egyptian pound equivalent of
$50,000,000 may be made available to replenish the exist-
ing endowment for the American University in Cairo, and
the Egyptian pound equivalent of $35,000,000 may be
made available for projects and programs, including estab-
lishment of an endowment, which promote the preserva-
tion and restoration of Egyptian antiquities: Provided fur-
ther, That in exercising the authority to provide cash
transfer assistance for Israel and Egypt, 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 each such country: Pro-
vided further, That it is the sense of the Congress that
the recommended levels of assistance for Egypt and Israel
are based in great measure upon their continued participa-
tion in the Camp David Accords and upon the Egyptian-
Israeli peace treaty: Provided further, That none of the
funds appropriated under this heading shall be made avail-
able for Zaire.
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR IRELAND
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, up to
$19,600,000, which shall be available for the United
States contribution to the International Fund for Ireland
and shall be made available in accordance with the provi-
sions of the Anglo-Irish Agreement Support Act of 1986
(Public Law 99–415): Provided, That such amount shall
be expended at the minimum rate necessary to make time-
ly payment for projects and activities: Provided further,
That funds made available under this heading shall re-
main available until September 30, 1997.
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,
$324,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
1997, which shall be available, notwithstanding any other
provision of law, for economic assistance and for related
programs for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States.
(b) Funds appropriated under this heading or in prior
appropriations Acts that are or have been made available
for an Enterprise Fund may be deposited by such Fund
in interest-bearing accounts prior to the Fund’s disburse-
ment of such funds for program purposes. The Fund may
retain for such program purposes any interest earned on
such deposits without returning such interest to the Treas-
ury of the United States and without further appropria-
tion by the Congress. Funds made available for Enterprise
Funds shall be expended at the minimum rate necessary
to make timely payment for projects and activities.
(c) Funds appropriated under this heading shall be
considered to be economic assistance under the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 for purposes of making available
the administrative authorities contained in that Act for
the use of economic assistance.
ASSISTANCE FOR THE NEW INDEPENDENT STATES OF
THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
(a) For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of chapter 11 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961 and the FREEDOM Support Act, for assistance for
the new independent states of the former Soviet Union
and for related programs, $641,000,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 1997: Provided, That the provi-
sions of 498B(j) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
shall apply to funds appropriated by this paragraph.
(b) None of the funds appropriated under this head-
ing shall be transferred to the Government of Russia—
(1) unless that Government is making progress
in implementing comprehensive economic reforms
based on market principles, private ownership, nego-
tiating repayment of commercial debt, respect for
commercial contracts, and equitable treatment of
foreign private investment; and
(2) if that Government applies or transfers
United States assistance to any entity for the pur-
pose of expropriating or seizing ownership or control
of assets, investments, or ventures.
(c) Funds may be furnished without regard to sub-
section (b) if the President determines that to do so is
in the national interest.
(d) None of the funds appropriated under this head-
ing shall be made available to any government of the new
independent states of the former Soviet Union if that gov-
ernment directs any action in violation of the territorial
integrity or national sovereignty of any other new inde-
pendent state, such as those violations included in the Hel-
sinki Final Act: Provided, That such funds may be made
available without regard to the restriction in this sub-
section if the President determines that to do so is in the
national security interest of the United States: Provided
further, That the restriction of this subsection shall not
apply to the use of such funds for the provision of assist-
ance for purposes of humanitarian, disaster and refugee
relief.
(e) None of the funds appropriated under this head-
ing for the new independent states of the former Soviet
Union shall be made available for any state to enhance
its military capability: Provided, That this restriction does
not apply to demilitarization or nonproliferation programs.
(f) Funds appropriated under this heading shall be
subject to the regular notification procedures of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations.
(g) Funds made available in this Act for assistance
to the new independent states of the former Soviet Union
shall be subject to the provisions of section 117 (relating
to environment and natural resources) of the Foreign As-
sistance Act of 1961.
(h) Funds appropriated under this heading may be
made available for assistance for Mongolia.
(i) Funds made available in this Act for assistance
to the new independent states of the former Soviet Union
shall be provided to the maximum extent feasible through
the private sector, including small- and medium-size busi-
nesses, entrepreneurs, and others with indigenous private
enterprises in the region, intermediary development orga-
nizations committed to private enterprise, and private vol-
untary organizations: Provided, That grantees and con-
tractors should, to the maximum extent possible, place in
key staff positions specialists with prior on the ground ex-
pertise in the region of activity and fluency in one of the
local languages.
(j) In issuing new task orders, entering into con-
tracts, or making grants, with funds appropriated under
this heading or in prior appropriations Acts, for projects
or activities that have as one of their primary purposes
the fostering of private sector development, the Coordina-
tor for United States Assistance to the New Independent
States and the implementing agency shall encourage the
participation of and give significant weight to contractors
and grantees who propose investing a significant amount
of their own resources (including volunteer services and
in-kind contributions) in such projects and activities.
(k) Of the funds made available under this heading,
not less than $225,000,000 shall be made available for
Ukraine, with the understanding that Ukraine will under-
take significant economic reforms which are additional to
those which were undertaken in previous fiscal years, and
of which not less than $50,000,000 (from this or any other
Act) shall be made available to improve energy self-suffi-
ciency and improve safety at nuclear reactors, and of
which $2,000,000 should be made available to conduct or
implement an assessment of the energy distribution grid
that provides recommendations leading to increased access
to power by industrial, commercial and residential users,
and of which not less than $22,000,000 shall be made
available to support the development of small and medium
enterprises, including independent broadcast and print
media.