(b) PROCEEDINGS.—This Act shall not affect any 
proceedings or any application for any benefits, service, 
license, permit, certificate, or financial assistance pending 
on the date of the enactment of this Act before an office 
transferred by this Act, but such proceedings and applica-
tions shall be continued. Orders shall be issued in such 
proceedings, appeals shall be taken therefrom, and pay-
ments shall be made pursuant to such orders, as if this 
Act had not been enacted, and orders issued in any such 
proceeding shall continue in effect until modified, termi-
nated, superseded, or revoked by a duly authorized official, 
by a court of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of 
law. Nothing in this subsection shall be considered to pro-
hibit the discontinuance or modification of any such pro-
ceeding under the same terms and conditions and to the 
same extent that such proceeding could have been discon-
tinued or modified if this Act had not been enacted. 
(c) SUITS.—This Act shall not affect suits com-
menced before the date of the enactment of this Act, and 
in all such suits, proceeding shall be had, appeals taken, 
and judgments rendered in the same manner and with the 
same effect as if this Act had not been enacted. 
(d) NONABATEMENT OF ACTIONS.—No suit, action, 
or other proceeding commenced by or against an office 
transferred by this Act, or by or against any individual 
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in the official capacity of such individual as an officer or 
employee of such an office, shall abate by reason of the 
enactment of this Act. 
(e) CONTINUANCE OF SUITS.—If any Government of-
ficer in the official capacity of such officer is party to a 
suit with respect to a function of the officer, and under 
this Act such function is transferred to any other officer 
or office, then such suit shall be continued with the other 
officer or the head of such other office, as applicable, sub-
stituted or added as a party. 
(f) ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE AND JUDICIAL RE-
VIEW.—Except as otherwise provided by this Act, any 
statutory requirements relating to notice, hearings, action 
upon the record, or administrative or judicial review that 
apply to any function transferred by this Act shall apply 
to the exercise of such function by the head of the Federal 
agency, and other officers of the agency, to which such 
function is transferred by this Act. 
SEC. 14. AVAILABILITY OF EXISTING FUNDS. 
Existing appropriations and funds available for the 
performance of functions, programs, and activities termi-
nated pursuant to this Act shall remain available, for the 
duration of their period of availability, for necessary ex-
penses in connection with the termination and resolution 
of such functions, programs, and activities. 
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SEC. 15. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS AND REPEALS. 
(a) REPEAL OF PRIMARY AUTHORIZING STATUTE.— 
The Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 (12 U.S.C. 635— 
635i–9) is hereby repealed. 
(b) ELIMINATION OF RELATED AUTHORIZING PROVI-
SIONS.— 
(1) Section 103 of the International Develop-
ment and Finance Act of 1989 (12 U.S.C. 635 note; 
Public Law 101–240) is hereby repealed. 
(2) Section 303 of the Support for East Euro-
pean Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 (12 U.S.C. 
635 note; Public Law 101–179) is hereby repealed. 
(3) Section 1908 of the Export-Import Bank 
Act Amendments of 1978 (12 U.S.C. 635a–1) is 
amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘(a)’’; and 
(B) by striking subsection (b). 
(4) Sections 1911 and 1912 of the Export-Im-
port Bank Act Amendments of 1978 (12 U.S.C. 
635a–2 and 635a–3) are hereby repealed. 
(5) Section 206 of the Bank Export Services 
Act (12 U.S.C. 635a–4) is hereby repealed. 
(6) Sections 1 through 5 of Public Law 90–390 
(12 U.S.C. 635j through 635n) are hereby repealed. 
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(7) Sections 641 through 647 of the Trade and 
Development Enhancement Act of 1983 (12 U.S.C. 
635o–635t) are hereby repealed. 
(8) Section 534 of the Foreign Operations, Ex-
port Financing, and Related Programs Appropria-
tions Act, 1990 (12 U.S.C. 635g note; Public Law 
101–167) is amended by striking subsection (d). 
(9) Section 3302 of the Omnibus Trade and 
Competitiveness Act of 1988 (12 U.S.C. 635i–3 
note; Public Law 100–418) is amended by striking 
subsection (a). 
(10) Section 1105(a) of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended by striking paragraph (34) and re-
designating the succeeding paragraphs of such sec-
tion as paragraphs (34) through (38), respectively. 
(11) Section 9101(3) of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended by striking subparagraph (C). 
(c) ELIMINATION OF RELATED COMPENSATION PRO-
VISIONS.— 
(1) POSITION AT LEVEL III.—Section 5314 of 
title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking 
the following item: 
‘‘President of the Export-Import Bank of Wash-
ington.’’. 
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(2) POSITIONS AT LEVEL IV.—Section 5315 of 
title 5, United States Code, is amended— 
(A) by striking the following item: 
‘‘First Vice President of the Export-Import Bank of 
Washington.’’; and 
(B) by striking the following item: 
‘‘Members, Board of Directors of the Export-Import 
Bank of Washington.’’. 
(d) ELIMINATION OF OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GEN-
ERAL FOR THE BANK.—Section 12 of the Inspector Gen-
eral Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘the President 
of the Export-Import Bank;’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘the Export- 
Import Bank,’’. 
(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The repeals and amend-
ments made by this section shall take effect on the abolish-
ment date. 
(f) REPORT TO THE CONGRESS ON OTHER AMEND-
MENTS TO FEDERAL STATUTE.—The Secretary shall sub-
mit to the Committee on Financial Services of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Hous-
ing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate a written report that 
contains suggestions for such other amendments to Fed-
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eral statutes as may be necessary or appropriate as a re-
sult of this Act. 
SEC. 16. REFERENCES. 
Any reference in any other Federal law, Executive 
order, rule, regulation, or delegation of authority, or any 
document of or pertaining to a department or office from 
which a function is transferred by this Act— 
(1) to the head of such department or office is 
deemed to refer to the head of the department or of-
fice to which the function is transferred; or 
(2) to such department or office is deemed to 
refer to the department or office to which the func-
tion is transferred. 
SEC. 17. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) FUNCTION.—The term ‘‘function’’ includes 
any duty, obligation, power, authority, responsibility, 
right, privilege, activity, or program. 
(2) OFFICE.—The term ‘‘office’’ includes any 
office, administration, agency, bureau, institute, 
council, unit, organizational entity, or component 
thereof. 
Æ 
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