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on world markets and if the assistance will cause substan-
tial injury to United States producers of the same, similar, 
or competing commodity. 
NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 515. For the purposes of providing the executive 
branch with the necessary administrative flexibility, none 
of the funds made available under this Act for ‘‘Child Sur-
vival and Health Programs Fund’’, ‘‘Development Assist-
ance’’, ‘‘International Organizations and Programs’’, 
‘‘Trade and Development Agency’’, ‘‘International Nar-
cotics 
Control 
and 
Law 
Enforcement’’, 
‘‘Andean 
Counterdrug Initiative’’, ‘‘Assistance for Eastern Europe 
and the Baltic States’’, ‘‘Assistance for the Independent 
States of the Former Soviet Union’’, ‘‘Economic Support 
Fund’’, ‘‘Democracy Fund’’, ‘‘Peacekeeping Operations’’, 
‘‘Capital Investment Fund’’, ‘‘Operating Expenses of the 
United States Agency for International Development’’, 
‘‘Operating Expenses of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development Office of Inspector General’’, ‘‘Non-
proliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related Pro-
grams’’, ‘‘Millennium Challenge Corporation’’ (by country 
only), ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’, ‘‘Inter-
national Military Education and Training’’, ‘‘Peace 
Corps’’, and ‘‘Migration and Refugee Assistance’’, shall be 
available for obligation for activities, programs, projects, 
type of materiel assistance, countries, or other operations
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not justified or in excess of the amount justified to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations for obligation under any of these 
specific headings unless the Committees on Appropriations 
are notified 15 days in advance: Provided, That the Presi-
dent shall not enter into any commitment of funds appro-
priated for the purposes of section 23 of the Arms Export 
Control Act for the provision of major defense equipment, 
other than conventional ammunition, or other major defense 
items defined to be aircraft, ships, missiles, or combat vehi-
cles, not previously justified to Congress or 20 percent in 
excess of the quantities justified to Congress unless the Com-
mittees on Appropriations are notified 15 days in advance 
of such commitment: Provided further, That this section 
shall not apply to any reprogramming for an activity, pro-
gram, or project for which funds are appropriated under 
title III of this Act of less than 10 percent of the amount 
previously justified to the Congress for obligation for such 
activity, program, or project for the current fiscal year: 
Provided further, That the requirements of this section or 
any similar provision of this Act or any other Act, includ-
ing any prior Act requiring notification in accordance with 
the regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
Appropriations, may be waived if failure to do so would 
pose a substantial risk to human health or welfare: Provided 
further, That in case of any such waiver, notification to
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the Congress, or the appropriate congressional committees, 
shall be provided as early as practicable, but in no event 
later than 3 days after taking the action to which such noti-
fication requirement was applicable, in the context of the 
circumstances necessitating such waiver: Provided further, 
That any notification provided pursuant to such a waiver 
shall contain an explanation of the emergency cir-
cumstances. 
LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR 
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMS 
SEC. 516. Subject to the regular notification proce-
dures of the Committees on Appropriations, funds appro-
priated under this Act or any previously enacted Act mak-
ing appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, 
and related programs, which are returned or not made 
available for organizations and programs because of the im-
plementation of section 307(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961, shall remain available for obligation until Sep-
tember 30, 2008: Provided, That section 307(a) of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended by striking 
‘‘Libya,’’. 
INDEPENDENT STATES OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION 
SEC. 517. (a) VIOLATION OF TERRITORIAL INTEG-
RITY.—None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
made available for assistance for a government of an Inde-
pendent State of the former Soviet Union if that govern-
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ment directs any action in violation of the territorial integ-
rity or national sovereignty of any other Independent State 
of the former Soviet Union, such as those violations in-
cluded in the Helsinki Final Act: Provided, That such funds 
may be made available without regard to the restriction in 
this subsection if the President determines that to do so is 
in the national security interest of the United States. 
(b) MILITARY USE PROHIBITED.—None of the funds 
appropriated by this Act and made available for assistance 
for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union shall 
be made available for any state to enhance its military ca-
pability: Provided, That this restriction does not apply to 
demilitarization, demining or nonproliferation programs. 
(c) NOTIFICATION.—Funds appropriated by this Act 
and made available for assistance for the Russian Federa-
tion, Armenia, Georgia, and Ukraine shall be subject to the 
regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appro-
priations. 
(d) ENVIRONMENT.—Funds made available in this Act 
for assistance for the Independent States of the former So-
viet Union shall be subject to the provisions of section 117 
(relating to environment and natural resources) of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961. 
(e)(1) NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY AND CHECHNYA.—Of 
the funds appropriated by this Act that are allocated for
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assistance for the Government of the Russian Federation, 
60 percent shall be withheld from obligation until the Presi-
dent determines and certifies in writing to the Committees 
on Appropriations that the Government of the Russian Fed-
eration— 
(A) has terminated implementation of arrange-
ments to Iran and Burma with technical expertise, 
training, technology, or equipment necessary to de-
velop a nuclear reactor, related nuclear research fa-
cilities or programs, or ballistic missile capability; 
and 
(B) is providing full access to international non- 
government organizations providing humanitarian 
relief to refugees and internally displaced persons in 
Chechnya. 
(2) EXCEPTIONS.—Paragraph (1) shall not apply to— 
(A) assistance to combat infectious diseases, child 
survival activities, or assistance for victims of traf-
ficking in persons; and 
(B) activities authorized under title V (Non-
proliferation and Disarmament Programs and Activi-
ties) of the FREEDOM Support Act. 
(f) AZERBAIJAN.—Section 907 of the FREEDOM Sup-
port Act shall not apply to—
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(1) activities to support democracy or assistance 
under title V of the FREEDOM Support Act and sec-
tion 1424 of Public Law 104–201 or non-proliferation 
assistance; 
(2) any assistance provided by the Trade and 
Development Agency under section 661 of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2421); 
(3) any activity carried out by a member of the 
United States and Foreign Commercial Service while 
acting within his or her official capacity; 
(4) any insurance, reinsurance, guarantee or 
other assistance provided by the Overseas Private In-
vestment Corporation under title IV of chapter 2 of 
part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2191 et seq.); 
(5) any financing provided under the Export- 
Import Bank Act of 1945; or 
(6) humanitarian assistance. 
(g) DISCRIMINATION AGAINST RELIGIOUS FAITHS.— 
None of the funds appropriated for assistance under this 
Act may be made available for the Government of the Rus-
sian Federation, after 180 days from the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, unless the President determines and cer-
tifies in writing to the Committees on Appropriations that 
the Government of the Russian Federation has implemented
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no statute, Executive order, regulation or similar govern-
ment action that would discriminate, or which has as its 
principal effect discrimination, against religious groups or 
religious communities in the Russian Federation in viola-
tion of accepted international agreements on human rights 
and religious freedoms to which the Russian Federation is 
a party. 
(h) RUSSIAN FAR EAST.—Of the funds appropriated 
under title III of this Act, not less than $17,500,000 shall 
be made available for assistance for the Russian Far East. 
VOLUNTARY FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAMS 
SEC. 518. (a) IN GENERAL.—In order to reduce reli-
ance on abortion in developing nations, funds shall be 
available only to voluntary family planning projects which 
offer, either directly or through referral to, or information 
about access to, a broad range of family planning methods 
and services. 
(b) DEFINITION
OF ‘‘VOLUNTARY’’.—Any such vol-
untary family planning project shall meet the following re-
quirements: 
(1) Service providers or referral agents in the 
project shall not implement or be subject to quotas, or 
other numerical targets, of total number of births, 
number of family planning acceptors, or acceptors of 
a particular method of family planning (this provi-
sion shall not be construed to include the use of quan-
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titative estimates or indicators for budgeting and 
planning purposes). 
(2) The project shall not include payment of in-
centives, bribes, gratuities, or financial reward to— 
(A) an individual in exchange for becoming 
a family planning acceptor; or 
(B) program personnel for achieving a nu-
merical target or quota of total number of births, 
number of family planning acceptors, or accep-
tors of a particular method of family planning. 
(3) The project shall not deny any right or ben-
efit, including the right of access to participate in 
any program of general welfare or the right of access 
to health care, as a consequence of any individual’s 
decision not to accept family planning services. 
(4) The project shall provide family planning ac-
ceptors comprehensible information on the health ben-
efits and risks of the method chosen, including those 
conditions that might render the use of the method in-
advisable and those adverse side effects known to be 
consequent to the use of the method. 
(5) The project shall ensure that experimental 
contraceptive drugs and devices and medical proce-
dures are provided only in the context of a scientific
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study in which participants are advised of potential 
risks and benefits. 
(c) REPORT.—Not less than 60 days after the date on 
which the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development determines that there has been 
a violation of the requirements contained in paragraph (1), 
(2), (3), or (5) of subsection (b), or a pattern or practice 
of violations of the requirements contained in paragraph 
(4) of that subsection, the Administrator shall submit to the 
Committees on Appropriations a report containing a de-
scription of such violation and the corrective action taken 
by the Agency. 
(d) NATURAL
FAMILY
PLANNING.—In awarding 
grants for natural family planning under section 104 of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961— 
(1) no applicant shall be discriminated against 
because of such applicant’s religious or conscientious 
commitment to offer only natural family planning; 
and 
(2) in addition, all such applicants shall comply 
with the requirements of subsections (a) and (b) of 
this section. 
(e) DEFINITION OF ‘‘MOTIVATE’’.—For purposes of this 
or any other Act authorizing or appropriating funds for 
foreign operations, export financing, and related programs,
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the term ‘‘motivate’’, as it relates to family planning assist-
ance, shall not be construed to prohibit the provision, con-
sistent with local law, of information or counseling about 
all pregnancy options. 
(f) APPLICABILITY.—The provisions of this section 
shall be applicable to funds appropriated by this Act and 
any subsequent Act appropriating funds for foreign oper-
ations, export financing, and related programs. 
EXPORT FINANCING TRANSFER AUTHORITIES 
SEC. 519. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation 
other than for administrative expenses made available for 
fiscal year 2007, for programs under title II of this Act 
may be transferred between such appropriations for use for 
any of the purposes, programs, and activities for which the 
funds in such receiving account may be used, but no such 
appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, 
shall be increased by more than 25 percent by any such 
transfer: Provided, That the exercise of such authority shall 
be subject to the regular notification procedures of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations. 
SPECIAL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 520. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
shall be obligated or expended for assistance for Liberia, 
Serbia, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, or Cambodia except 
as provided through the regular notification procedures of 
the Committees on Appropriations.
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DEFINITION OF PROGRAM, PROJECT, AND ACTIVITY 
SEC. 521. For the purpose of this Act ‘‘program, 
project, and activity’’ shall be defined at the appropriations 
Act account level and shall include all appropriations and 
authorizations Acts earmarks, ceilings, and limitations 
with the exception that for the following accounts: Economic 
Support Fund and Foreign Military Financing Program 
‘‘program, project, and activity’’ shall also be considered 
to include country, regional, and central program level 
funding within each such account; for the development as-
sistance accounts of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development ‘‘program, project, and activity’’ 
shall also be considered to include central, country, re-
gional, and program level funding, either as: (1) justified 
to the Congress; or (2) allocated by the executive branch in 
accordance with a report, to be provided to the Committees 
on Appropriations within 30 days of the enactment of this 
Act, as required by section 653(a) of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961. 
CHILD SURVIVAL AND HEALTH ACTIVITIES 
SEC. 522. Up to $13,500,000 of the funds made avail-
able by this Act for assistance under the heading ‘‘Child 
Survival and Health Programs Fund’’, may be used to re-
imburse United States Government agencies, agencies of 
State governments, institutions of higher learning, and pri-
vate and voluntary organizations for the full cost of indi-
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viduals (including for the personal services of such individ-
uals) detailed or assigned to, or contracted by, as the case 
may be, the United States Agency for International Devel-
opment for the purpose of carrying out activities under that 
heading: Provided, That up to $3,500,000 of the funds made 
available by this Act for assistance under the heading ‘‘De-
velopment Assistance’’ may be used to reimburse such agen-
cies, institutions, and organizations for such costs of such 
individuals carrying out other development assistance ac-
tivities: Provided further, That funds appropriated by titles 
III and IV of this Act that are made available for assistance 
for child survival activities or disease programs including 
activities relating to research on, and the prevention, treat-
ment and control of, HIV/AIDS may be made available not-
withstanding any other provision of law except for the pro-
visions under the heading ‘‘Child Survival and Health Pro-
grams Fund’’ and the United States Leadership Against 
HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (117 
Stat. 711; 22 U.S.C. 7601 et seq.), as amended. 
GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND 
MALARIA 
SEC. 523. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, 20 percent of the funds that are appropriated by 
this Act for a contribution to support the Global Fund to 
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the ‘‘Global 
Fund’’) shall be withheld from obligation to the Global
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Fund until the Secretary of State certifies to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations that the Global Fund— 
(1) has clear progress indicators upon which to 
determine the release of incremental disbursements; 
(2) is releasing such incremental disbursements 
only if progress is being made based on those indica-
tors; and 
(3) is providing support and oversight to coun-
try-level entities, such as country coordinating mecha-
nisms, principal recipients, and local Fund agents, to 
enable them to fulfill their mandates. 
(b) The Secretary of State may waive subsection (a) 
if the Secretary determines and reports to the Committees 
on Appropriations that such waiver is important to the na-
tional interest of the United States. 
NOTIFICATION ON EXCESS DEFENSE EQUIPMENT 
SEC. 524. Prior to providing excess Department of De-
fense articles in accordance with section 516(a) of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961, the Department of Defense shall 
notify the Committees on Appropriations to the same extent 
and under the same conditions as are other committees pur-
suant to subsection (f) of that section: Provided, That before 
issuing a letter of offer to sell excess defense articles under 
the Arms Export Control Act, the Department of Defense 
shall notify the Committees on Appropriations in accord-
ance with the regular notification procedures of such Com-
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mittees if such defense articles are significant military 
equipment (as defined in section 47(9) of the Arms Export 
Control Act) or are valued (in terms of original acquisition 
cost) at $7,000,000 or more, or if notification is required 
elsewhere in this Act for the use of appropriated funds for 
specific countries that would receive such excess defense ar-
ticles: Provided further, That such Committees shall also be 
informed of the original acquisition cost of such defense ar-
ticles. 
AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT 
SEC. 525. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
in titles I through V of this Act, except for those provided 
under the headings ‘‘Andean Counterdrug Initiative’’, 
‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’ and ‘‘Broadcasting 
to Cuba’’, may be obligated for the procurement of aircraft. 
LIMITATION ON FUNDS RELATING TO ATTENDANCE OF FED-
ERAL EMPLOYEES AT CONFERENCES OCCURRING OUT-
SIDE THE UNITED STATES 
SEC. 526. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attendance 
of more than 50 employees of agencies or departments of 
the United States Government who are stationed in the 
United States, at any single international conference occur-
ring outside the United States, unless the Secretary of State 
determines that such attendance is in the national interest:
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Provided, That for purposes of this section the term ‘‘inter-
national conference’’ shall mean a conference attended by 
representatives of the United States Government and rep-
resentatives of foreign governments, international organiza-
tions, or nongovernmental organizations. 
PROHIBITION ON BILATERAL ASSISTANCE TO TERRORIST 
COUNTRIES 
SEC. 527. (a) Funds appropriated for bilateral assist-
ance under any heading of this Act and funds appropriated 
under any such heading in a provision of law enacted prior 
to the enactment of this Act, shall not be made available 
to any country which the President determines— 
(1) grants sanctuary from prosecution to any in-
dividual or group which has committed an act of 
international terrorism; or 
(2) otherwise supports international terrorism. 
(b) The President may waive the application of sub-
section (a) to a country if the President determines that 
national security or humanitarian reasons justify such 
waiver. The President shall publish each waiver in the Fed-
eral Register and, at least 15 days before the waiver takes 
effect, shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of the 
waiver (including the justification for the waiver) in ac-
cordance with the regular notification procedures of the 
Committees on Appropriations.
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DEBT-FOR-DEVELOPMENT 
SEC. 528. In order to enhance the continued participa-
tion of nongovernmental organizations in debt-for-develop-
ment and debt-for-nature exchanges, a nongovernmental or-
ganization which is a grantee or contractor of the United 
States Agency for International Development may place in 
interest bearing accounts local currencies which accrue to 
that organization as a result of economic assistance pro-
vided under title III of this Act and, subject to the regular 
notification procedures of the Committees on Appropria-
tions, any interest earned on such investment shall be used 
for the purpose for which the assistance was provided to 
that organization. 
SEPARATE ACCOUNTS 
SEC. 529. (a) SEPARATE ACCOUNTS FOR LOCAL CUR-
RENCIES.— 
(1) If assistance is furnished to the government 
of a foreign country under chapters 1 and 10 of part 
I or chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 under agreements which result in the genera-
tion of local currencies of that country, the Adminis-
trator of the United States Agency for International 
Development shall— 
(A) require that local currencies be depos-
ited in a separate account established by that 
government;
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(B) enter into an agreement with that gov-
ernment which sets forth— 
(i) the amount of the local currencies 
to be generated; and 
(ii) the terms and conditions under 
which the currencies so deposited may be 
utilized, consistent with this section; and 
(C) establish by agreement with that gov-
ernment the responsibilities of the United States 
Agency for International Development and that 
government to monitor and account for deposits 
into and disbursements from the separate ac-
count. 
(2) USES OF LOCAL CURRENCIES.—As may be 
agreed upon with the foreign government, local cur-
rencies deposited in a separate account pursuant to 
subsection (a), or an equivalent amount of local cur-
rencies, shall be used only— 
(A) to carry out chapter 1 or 10 of part I 
or chapter 4 of part II (as the case may be), for 
such purposes as— 
(i) project and sector assistance activi-
ties; or 
(ii) debt and deficit financing; or
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(B) for the administrative requirements of 
the United States Government. 
(3) 
PROGRAMMING
ACCOUNTABILITY.—The 
United States Agency for International Development 
shall take all necessary steps to ensure that the equiv-
alent of the local currencies disbursed pursuant to 
subsection (a)(2)(A) from the separate account estab-
lished pursuant to subsection (a)(1) are used for the 
purposes agreed upon pursuant to subsection (a)(2). 
(4) TERMINATION OF ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.— 
Upon termination of assistance to a country under 
chapter 1 or 10 of part I or chapter 4 of part II (as 
the case may be), any unencumbered balances of 
funds which remain in a separate account established 
pursuant to subsection (a) shall be disposed of for 
such purposes as may be agreed to by the government 
of that country and the United States Government. 
(5) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—The Adminis-
trator of the United States Agency for International 
Development shall report on an annual basis as part 
of the justification documents submitted to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations on the use of local cur-
rencies for the administrative requirements of the 
United States Government as authorized in subsection 
(a)(2)(B), and such report shall include the amount