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ductive capacity is expected to become operative and if the 
assistance will cause substantial injury to United States 
producers of the same, similar, or competing commodity: 
Provided, That such prohibition shall not apply to the Ex-
port-Import Bank if in the judgment of its Board of Direc-
tors the benefits to industry and employment in the 
United States are likely to outweigh the injury to United 
States producers of the same, similar, or competing com-
modity, and the Chairman of the Board so notifies the 
Committees on Appropriations. 
(b) None of the funds appropriated by this or any 
other Act to carry out chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 shall be available for any testing 
or breeding feasibility study, variety improvement or intro-
duction, consultancy, publication, conference, or training 
in connection with the growth or production in a foreign 
country of an agricultural commodity for export which 
would compete with a similar commodity grown or pro-
duced in the United States: Provided, That this subsection 
shall not prohibit— 
(1) activities designed to increase food security 
in developing countries where such activities will not 
have a significant impact on the export of agricul-
tural commodities of the United States; or 
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(2) research activities intended primarily to 
benefit American producers. 
SURPLUS COMMODITIES 
SEC. 614. The Secretary of the Treasury shall in-
struct the United States Executive Directors of the Inter-
national Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the 
International Development Association, the International 
Finance Corporation, the Inter-American Development 
Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Devel-
opment Bank, the Inter-American Investment Corpora-
tion, the North American Development Bank, the Euro-
pean Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Afri-
can Development Bank, and the African Development 
Fund to use the voice and vote of the United States to 
oppose any assistance by these institutions, using funds 
appropriated or made available pursuant to titles II 
through V of this Act, for the production or extraction 
of any commodity or mineral for export, if it is in surplus 
on world markets and if the assistance will cause substan-
tial injury to United States producers of the same, similar, 
or competing commodity. 
REPROGRAMMING NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 615. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act, or in prior appropriations Acts to the agencies 
and departments funded by this Act that remain available 
for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2008, or pro-
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vided from any accounts in the Treasury of the United 
States derived by the collection of fees or of currency 
reflows or other offsetting collections, or made available 
by transfer, to the agencies and departments funded by 
this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates new 
programs; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any 
project or activity for which funds have been denied or 
restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) closes 
or opens a mission or post; (6) reorganizes or renames 
offices; (7) reorganizes programs or activities; or (8) con-
tracts out or privatizes any functions or activities pres-
ently performed by Federal employees; unless the Commit-
tees on Appropriations are notified 15 days in advance of 
such reprogramming of funds. 
(b) For the purposes of providing the executive 
branch with the necessary administrative flexibility, none 
of the funds provided under title I of this Act, or provided 
under previous appropriations Acts to the agencies or de-
partment funded under title I of this Act that remain 
available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2008, 
or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the 
United States derived by the collection of fees available 
to the agencies or department funded by title I of this 
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Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure for ac-
tivities, programs, or projects through a reprogramming 
of funds in excess of $750,000 or ten percent, whichever 
is less, that: (1) augments existing programs, projects, or 
activities; (2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any exist-
ing program, project, or activity, or numbers of personnel 
by ten percent as approved by Congress; or (3) results 
from any general savings, including savings from a reduc-
tion in personnel, which would result in a change in exist-
ing programs, activities, or projects as approved by Con-
gress; unless the Committees on Appropriations are noti-
fied 15 days in advance of such reprogramming of funds. 
(c) For the purposes of providing the executive 
branch with the necessary administrative flexibility, none 
of the funds made available in this Act for the headings 
‘‘CHILD SURVIVAL AND HEALTH PROGRAMS 
FUND’’, ‘‘DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE’’, ‘‘INTER-
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMS’’, 
‘‘TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY’’, ‘‘INTER-
NATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL AND LAW EN-
FORCEMENT’’, ‘‘ANDEAN COUNTERDRUG INITIA-
TIVE’’, ‘‘ASSISTANCE FOR EASTERN EUROPE 
AND THE BALTIC STATES’’, ‘‘ASSISTANCE FOR 
THE INDEPENDENT STATES OF THE FORMER 
SOVIET UNION’’, ‘‘ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUND’’, 
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‘‘GLOBAL 
HIV/AIDS 
INITIATIVE’’, 
‘‘PEACE-
KEEPING 
OPERATIONS’’, 
‘‘CAPITAL 
INVEST-
MENT FUND’’, ‘‘OPERATING EXPENSES OF THE 
UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 
DEVELOPMENT’’, ‘‘OPERATING EXPENSES OF 
THE UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTER-
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICE OF INSPEC-
TOR GENERAL’’, ‘‘NONPROLIFERATION, ANTI- 
TERRORISM, DEMINING AND RELATED PRO-
GRAMS’’, ‘‘MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORA-
TION’’ (by country only), ‘‘FOREIGN MILITARY FI-
NANCING PROGRAM’’, ‘‘INTERNATIONAL MILI-
TARY EDUCATION AND TRAINING’’, ‘‘PEACE 
CORPS’’, and ‘‘MIGRATION AND REFUGEE ASSIST-
ANCE’’, shall be available for obligation for activities, pro-
grams, projects, type of materiel assistance, countries, or 
other operations not justified or in excess of the amount 
justified to the Committees on Appropriations for obliga-
tion under any of these specific headings unless the Com-
mittees on Appropriations are notified 15 days in advance: 
Provided, That the President shall not enter into any com-
mitment of funds appropriated for the purposes of section 
23 of the Arms Export Control Act for the provision of 
major defense equipment, other than conventional ammu-
nition, or other major defense items defined to be aircraft, 
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