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such funds shall be subject to the regular notification procedures
of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That 30
days after enactment of this Act, the President shall report to
the Committees on Appropriations on the results of the FBI inves-
tigation into the bombing attack in Phnom Penh on March 30,
1997.
INTERNATIONAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE
For necessary expenses for international disaster relief,
rehabilitation, and reconstruction assistance pursuant to section
491 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended,
$190,000,000, to remain available until expended.
DEBT RESTRUCTURING
For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974, of modifying direct loans and loan guarantees,
as the President may determine, for which funds have been appro-
priated or otherwise made available for programs within the Inter-
national Affairs Budget Function 150, including the cost of selling,
reducing, or canceling amounts, through debt buybacks and swaps,
owed to the United States as a result of concessional loans made
to eligible Latin American and Caribbean countries, pursuant to
part IV of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; of modifying
concessional loans extended to least developed countries, as author-
ized under section 411 of the Agricultural Trade Development and
Assistance Act of 1954, as amended; and of modifying any obliga-
tion, or portion of such obligation for Latin American countries
to pay for purchases of United States agricultural commodities
guaranteed by the Commodity Credit Corporation under export
credit guarantee programs authorized pursuant to section 5(f ) of
the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act of June 29, 1948,
as amended, section 4(b) of the Food for Peace Act of 1966, as
amended (Public Law 89–808), or section 202 of the Agricultural
Trade Act of 1978, as amended (Public Law 95–501); $27,000,000,
to remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed
$1,500,000 of such funds may be used for implementation of
improvements in the foreign credit reporting system of the United
States Government.
MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost of direct loans and loan guarantees, $1,500,000,
as authorized by section 108 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
as amended: Provided, That such costs shall be as defined in section
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further,
That guarantees of loans made under this heading in support
of microenterprise activities may guarantee up to 70 percent of
the principal amount of any such loans notwithstanding section
108 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. In addition, for adminis-
trative expenses to carry out programs under this heading,
$500,000, all of which may be transferred to and merged with
the appropriation for Operating Expenses of the Agency for Inter-
national Development: Provided further, That funds made available
under this heading shall remain available until September 30,
1999.
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URBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL CREDIT PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974, of guaranteed loans authorized by sections
221 and 222 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, including the
cost of guaranteed loans designed to promote the urban and environ-
mental policies and objectives of part I of such Act, $3,000,000,
to remain available until September 30, 1999: Provided, That these
funds are available to subsidize loan principal, 100 percent of which
shall be guaranteed, pursuant to the authority of such sections.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out guaranteed
loan programs, $6,000,000, all of which may be transferred to
and merged with the appropriation for Operating Expenses of the
Agency for International Development: Provided further, That
commitments to guarantee loans under this heading may be entered
into notwithstanding the second and third sentences of section
222(a) and, with regard to programs for Central and Eastern Europe
and programs for the benefit of South Africans disadvantaged by
apartheid, section 223( j) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
PAYMENT TO THE FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY
FUND
For payment to the ‘‘Foreign Service Retirement and Disability
Fund’’, as authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1980,
$44,208,000.
OPERATING EXPENSES OF THE AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section
667, $473,000,000: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated
by this Act for programs administered by the Agency for Inter-
national Development may be used to finance printing costs of
any report or study (except feasibility, design, or evaluation reports
or studies) in excess of $25,000 without the approval of the Adminis-
trator of the Agency or the Administrator’s designee.
OPERATING EXPENSES OF THE AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section
667, $29,047,000, to remain available until September 30, 1999,
which sum shall be available for the Office of the Inspector General
of the Agency for International Development.
OTHER BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUND
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of chapter
4 of part II, $2,400,000,000, to remain available until September
30, 1999: Provided, That of the funds appropriated under this
heading, not less than $1,200,000,000 shall be available only for
Israel, which sum shall be available on a grant basis as a cash
transfer and shall be disbursed within 30 days of enactment of
this Act or by October 31, 1997, whichever is later: Provided further,
That not less than $815,000,000 shall be available only for Egypt,
which sum shall be provided on a grant basis, and of which sum
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cash transfer assistance may be provided, with the understanding
that Egypt will undertake significant economic reforms which are
additional to those which were undertaken in previous fiscal years:
Provided further, That in exercising the authority to provide cash
transfer assistance for Israel, the President shall ensure that the
level of such assistance does not cause an adverse impact on the
total level of nonmilitary exports from the United States to such
country: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under
this heading, not less than $150,000,000 shall be made available
for Jordan: Provided further, That of the funds made available
under this heading in previous Acts making appropriations for
foreign operations, export financing, and related programs, notwith-
standing any provision in any such heading in such previous Acts,
up to $116,000,000 may be allocated or made available for programs
and activities under this heading including the Middle East Peace
and Stability Fund: Provided further, That in carrying out the
previous proviso, the President should seek to ensure to the extent
feasible that not more than 1 percent of the amount specified
in section 586 of this Act should be derived from funds that would
otherwise be made available for any single country: Provided fur-
ther, That funds provided for the Middle East Peace and Stability
Fund by a country in the region under the authority of section
635(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and funds made
available for Jordan following the date of enactment of this Act
from previous Acts making appropriations for foreign operations,
export financing, and related programs, shall count toward meeting
the earmark contained in the fourth proviso under this heading:
Provided further, That up to $10,000,000 of funds under this head-
ing in previous foreign operations, export financing, and related
programs appropriations Acts that were reprogrammed for Jordan
during fiscal year 1997 shall also count toward such earmark:
Provided further, That, in order to facilitate the implementation
of the fourth proviso under this heading, the requirement of section
515 of this Act or any similar provision of law shall not apply
to the making available of funds appropriated for a fiscal year
for programs, projects, or activities that were justified for another
fiscal year: Provided further, That for fiscal year 1998 such portions
of the notification required under section 653 of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 that relate to the Middle East may be submitted
to the Congress as soon as practicable, but no later than March
1, 1998: Provided further, That during fiscal year 1998, of the
local currencies generated from funds made available under this
heading for Guatemala by this Act and prior appropriations Acts,
the United States and Guatemala may jointly program the Guate-
mala quetzales equivalent of a total of up to $10,000,000 for the
purpose of retiring the debt owed by universities in Guatemala
to the Inter-American Development Bank.
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR IRELAND
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of chapter
4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, $19,600,000,
which shall be available for the United States contribution to the
International Fund for Ireland and shall be made available in
accordance with the provisions of the Anglo-Irish Agreement Sup-
port Act of 1986 (Public Law 99–415): Provided, That such amount
shall be expended at the minimum rate necessary to make timely
payment for projects and activities: Provided further, That funds
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made available under this heading shall remain available until
September 30, 1999.
ASSISTANCE FOR EASTERN EUROPE AND THE BALTIC STATES
(a) For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Support for East European
Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989, $485,000,000, to remain available
until September 30, 1999, which shall be available, notwithstanding
any other provision of law, for economic assistance and for related
programs for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States.
(b) Funds appropriated under this heading or in prior appro-
priations Acts that are or have been made available for an Enter-
prise Fund may be deposited by such Fund in interest-bearing
accounts prior to the Fund’s disbursement of such funds for program
purposes. The Fund may retain for such program purposes any
interest earned on such deposits without returning such interest
to the Treasury of the United States and without further appropria-
tion by the Congress. Funds made available for Enterprise Funds
shall be expended at the minimum rate necessary to make timely
payment for projects and activities.
(c) Funds appropriated under this heading shall be considered
to be economic assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961 for purposes of making available the administrative authori-
ties contained in that Act for the use of economic assistance.
(d) None of the funds appropriated under this heading may
be made available for new housing construction or repair or
reconstruction of existing housing in Bosnia and Herzegovina unless
directly related to the efforts of United States troops to promote
peace in said country.
(e) With regard to funds appropriated or otherwise made avail-
able under this heading for the economic revitalization program
in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and local currencies generated by such
funds (including the conversion of funds appropriated under this
heading into currency used by Bosnia and Herzegovina as local
currency and local currency returned or repaid under such pro-
gram)—
(1) the Administrator of the Agency for International Devel-
opment shall provide written approval for grants and loans
prior to the obligation and expenditure of funds for such pur-
poses, and prior to the use of funds that have been returned
or repaid to any lending facility or grantee; and
(2) the provisions of section 532 of this Act shall apply.
(f ) The President is authorized to withhold funds appropriated
under this heading made available for economic revitalization pro-
grams in Bosnia and Herzegovina, if he determines and certifies
to the Committees on Appropriations that the Federation of Bosnia
and Herzegovina has not complied with article III of annex 1–
A of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and
Herzegovina concerning the withdrawal of foreign forces, and that
intelligence cooperation on training, investigations, and related
activities between Iranian officials and Bosnian officials has not
been terminated.
(g) Not to exceed $200,000,000 of the funds appropriated under
this heading may be made available for Bosnia and Herzegovina
exclusive of assistance for police training.
(h) Not to exceed $7,000,000 of the funds made available for
Bosnia and Herzegovina may be made available for the cost, as