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the United States pursuant to Article 98 of the Rome Statute
preventing the International Criminal Court from proceeding
against United States personnel present in such country.
(d) The prohibition of this section shall not apply to countries
otherwise eligible for assistance under the Millennium Challenge
Act of 2003, notwithstanding section 606(a)(2)(B) of such Act.
PROHIBITION AGAINST DIRECT FUNDING FOR SAUDI ARABIA
SEC. 575. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or expended to
finance any assistance to Saudi Arabia: Provided, That the Presi-
dent may waive the prohibition of this section if he certifies to
the Committees on Appropriations, 15 days prior to the obligation
of funds for assistance for Saudi Arabia, that Saudi Arabia is
cooperating with efforts to combat international terrorism and that
the proposed assistance will help facilitate that effort.
ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMS
SEC. 576. (a) FUNDING.—Of the funds appropriated under the
heading ‘‘Development Assistance’’, not less than $165,500,000 shall
be made available for programs and activities which directly protect
biodiversity, including forests, in developing countries, of which
not less than $8,000,000 should be made available to implement
a regional strategy for biodiversity conservation in the countries
comprising the Amazon basin of South America, including to
improve the capacity of indigenous communities and local law
enforcement agencies to protect the biodiversity of indigenous
reserves, which amount shall be in addition to the amounts
requested for biodiversity activities in these countries in fiscal year
2005: Provided, That of the funds appropriated by this Act, not
less than $180,000,000 shall be made available to support clean
energy and other climate change policies and programs in devel-
oping countries, of which $100,000,000 should be made available
to directly promote and deploy energy conservation, energy effi-
ciency, and renewable and clean energy technologies, and of which
the balance should be made available to directly: (1) measure,
monitor, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions; (2) increase carbon
sequestration activities; and (3) enhance climate change mitigation
and adaptation programs.
(b) CLIMATE CHANGE REPORT.—Not later than 45 days after
the date on which the President’s fiscal year 2006 budget request
is submitted to Congress, the President shall submit a report to
the Committees on Appropriations describing in detail the
following—
(1) all Federal agency obligations and expenditures,
domestic and international, for climate change programs and
activities in fiscal year 2005, including an accounting of
expenditures by agency with each agency identifying climate
change activities and associated costs by line item as presented
in the President’s Budget Appendix; and
(2) all fiscal year 2004 obligations and estimated expendi-
tures, fiscal year 2005 estimated expenditures and estimated
obligations, and fiscal year 2006 requested funds by the United
States Agency for International Development, by country and
central program, for each of the following: (i) to promote the
transfer and deployment of a wide range of United States
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clean energy and energy efficiency technologies; (ii) to assist
in the measurement, monitoring, reporting, verification, and
reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; (iii) to promote carbon
capture and sequestration measures; (iv) to help meet such
countries’ responsibilities under the Framework Convention on
Climate Change; and (v) to develop assessments of the vulner-
ability to impacts of climate change and mitigation and adapta-
tion response strategies.
(c) EXTRACTION OF NATURAL RESOURCES.—
(1) The Secretary of the Treasury shall inform the manage-
ments of the international financial institutions and the public
that it is the policy of the United States that any assistance
by such institutions (including but not limited to any loan,
credit, grant, or guarantee) for the extraction and export of
oil, gas, coal, timber, or other natural resource should not
be provided unless the government of the country has in place
or is taking the necessary steps to establish functioning systems
for: (i) accurately accounting for revenues and expenditures
in connection with the extraction and export of the type of
natural resource to be extracted or exported; (ii) the inde-
pendent auditing of such accounts and the widespread public
dissemination of the audits; and (iii) verifying government
receipts against company payments including widespread
dissemination of such payment information in a manner that
does not create competitive disadvantage or disclose proprietary
information.
(2) Not later than 180 days after the enactment of this
Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit a report to
the Committees on Appropriations describing, for each inter-
national financial institution, the amount and type of assistance
provided, by country, for the extraction and export of oil, gas,
coal, timber, or other national resource since September 30,
2004.
UZBEKISTAN
SEC. 577. Funds appropriated by this Act may be made avail-
able for assistance for the central Government of Uzbekistan only
if the Secretary of State determines and reports to the Committees
on Appropriations that the Government of Uzbekistan is making
substantial and continuing progress in meeting its commitments
under the ‘‘Declaration on the Strategic Partnership and Coopera-
tion Framework Between the Republic of Uzbekistan and the United
States of America’’, including respect for human rights, establishing
a genuine multi-party system, and ensuring free and fair elections,
freedom of expression, and the independence of the media.
CENTRAL ASIA
SEC. 578. (a) Funds appropriated by this Act may be made
available for assistance for the Government of Kazakhstan only
if the Secretary of State determines and reports to the Committees
on Appropriations that the Government of Kazakhstan has made
significant improvements in the protection of human rights during
the preceding 6 month period.
(b) The Secretary of State may waive subsection (a) if he
determines and reports to the Committees on Appropriations that