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UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 
DEVELOPMENT PILOT MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE 
SEC. 5086. (a) PILOT ACTIVITIES.—Subject to sub-
section (b), the Administrator of the United States Agency 
for International Development may use up to $25,000,000 
of the funds appropriated to carry out part I of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961, including funds appropriated to 
carry out the Support for East European Democracy 
(SEED) Act of 1989, to pay administrative costs for fiscal 
year 2005, including salary, benefits, allowances, and over-
seas support costs of employees, of up to 2 overseas missions 
or offices of the agency. 
(b) CONDITIONS.—
(1) The authority of subsection (a) may be exer-
cised only if the Administrator submits a plan ap-
proved by the Office of Management and Budget and 
the Department of State to the Committees on Appro-
priations, that—
(A) identifies the overseas missions or offices 
for which this authority will be exercised, and 
explains the process by which these missions or 
offices were selected; 
(B) contains separate estimates of the ad-
ministrative costs for fiscal year 2005 of the dif-
ferent types of project assistance and nonproject
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assistance programs administered by such mis-
sion or office; and 
(C) describes the bases for such estimates. 
(2) Subsequent reports shall be submitted to the 
Committees on Appropriations by the Administrator 
at least every 60 days until January 15, 2006 to de-
scribe any changes made to the plan as originally 
submitted or later modified. 
(c) INITIAL CHARGES.—Funds appropriated under the 
heading ‘‘Operating Expenses of the United States Agency 
for International Development’’ for fiscal year 2005 may 
be initially charged for the purposes of this section. 
UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 
DEVELOPMENT HIRING AUTHORITY 
SEC. 5087. (a) USE OF PROGRAM FUNDS.—Up to 
$12,500,000 of the funds appropriated by this Act to carry 
out chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961 may be transferred to and consolidated with funds ap-
propriated under the heading, ‘‘Operating Expenses of the 
United States Agency for International Development’’ 
(USAID), and used by USAID to appoint and employ full-
time Civil Service and full-time Foreign Service personnel, 
including to pay the costs of salaries, benefits, and allow-
ances of such personnel: Provided, That the authority of this 
section may be used to appoint and employ not more than 
50 individuals.
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(b) CONDITIONS.—The authority of this section—
(1) may not be used until USAID completes a 
comprehensive workforce analysis that is approved by 
the USAID Administrator and submitted to the Office 
of Management and Budget and the Office of Per-
sonnel Management; 
(2) may only be used to meet shortages in tech-
nical skill areas identified in the approved workforce 
analysis; 
(3) may only be used to the extent that an equiv-
alent number of positions that are filled by personal 
service contractors or other employees of USAID, who 
are compensated with funds appropriated by this Act 
to carry out chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961, are eliminated; and 
(4) may only be exercised after notification of 
the Committees on Appropriations and the Office of 
Management and Budget. 
CERTAIN CLAIMS FOR EXPROPRIATION BY THE 
GOVERNMENT OF NICARAGUA 
SEC. 5088. Section 527 of the Foreign Relations Au-
thorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (22 U.S.C. 
2370(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subsection: 
‘‘(i) CERTAIN CLAIMS FOR EXPROPRIATION BY THE 
GOVERNMENT OF NICARAGUA.—
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‘‘(1) Any action of the types set forth in sub-
paragraphs (A), (B), and (C) of subsection (a)(1) that 
was taken by the Government of Nicaragua during 
the period beginning on January 1, 1956, and ending 
on January 9, 2002, shall not be considered in imple-
menting the prohibition under subsection (a) unless 
the action has been presented in accordance with the 
procedure set forth in paragraph (2). 
‘‘(2) An action shall be deemed presented for 
purposes of paragraph (1) if it is—
‘‘(A) in writing; and 
‘‘(B) received by the United States Depart-
ment of State on or before 120 days after the 
date specified in paragraph (3) at—
‘‘(i) the headquarters of the United 
States Department of State in Washington, 
D.C.; or, 
‘‘(ii) the Embassy of the United States 
of America to Nicaragua. 
‘‘(3) The date to which paragraph (2) refers is 
a date after enactment of this subsection that is speci-
fied by the Secretary of State, in the Secretary’s dis-
cretion, in a notice published in the Federal Reg-
ister.’’.