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Union Calendar No. 271 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5522 
[Report No. 109–486] 
Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related 
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 5, 2006 
Mr. KOLBE, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following 
bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financ-
ing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2007, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other pur-
poses, namely: 
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TITLE I—EXPORT AND INVESTMENT 
ASSISTANCE 
EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED 
STATES 
INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 
General Act of 1978, as amended, $988,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2008. 
PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
The Export-Import Bank of the United States is au-
thorized to make such expenditures within the limits of 
funds and borrowing authority available to such corpora-
tion, and in accordance with law, and to make such con-
tracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limi-
tations, as provided by section 104 of the Government 
Corporation Control Act, as may be necessary in carrying 
out the program for the current fiscal year for such cor-
poration: Provided, That none of the funds available dur-
ing the current fiscal year may be used to make expendi-
tures, contracts, or commitments for the export of nuclear 
equipment, fuel, or technology to any country, other than 
a nuclear-weapon state as defined in Article IX of the 
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons eligi-
ble to receive economic or military assistance under this 
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Act, that has detonated a nuclear explosive after the date 
of the enactment of this Act: Provided further, That not-
withstanding section 1(c) of Public Law 103–428, as 
amended, sections 1(a) and (b) of Public Law 103–428 
shall remain in effect through October 1, 2007. 
SUBSIDY APPROPRIATION 
For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees, insur-
ance, and tied-aid grants as authorized by section 10 of 
the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, as amended, 
$26,382,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2010: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of 
modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided fur-
ther, That such sums shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2025, for the disbursement of direct loans, 
loan guarantees, insurance and tied-aid grants obligated 
in fiscal years 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010: Provided fur-
ther, That none of the funds appropriated by this Act or 
any prior Act appropriating funds for foreign operations, 
export financing, and related programs for tied-aid credits 
or grants may be used for any other purpose except 
through the regular notification procedures of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations: Provided further, That funds 
appropriated by this paragraph are made available not-
withstanding section 2(b)(2) of the Export-Import Bank 
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Act of 1945, in connection with the purchase or lease of 
any product by any Eastern European country, any Baltic 
State or any agency or national thereof. 
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
For administrative expenses to carry out the direct 
and guaranteed loan and insurance programs, including 
hire of passenger motor vehicles and services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and not to exceed $30,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses for members of the 
Board of Directors, $75,234,000: Provided, That the Ex-
port-Import Bank may accept, and use, payment or serv-
ices provided by transaction participants for legal, finan-
cial, or technical services in connection with any trans-
action for which an application for a loan, guarantee or 
insurance commitment has been made: Provided further, 
That, notwithstanding subsection (b) of section 117 of the 
Export Enhancement Act of 1992, subsection (a) thereof 
shall remain in effect until October 1, 2007. 
OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT 
CORPORATION 
NON-CREDIT ACCOUNT 
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation is au-
thorized to make, without regard to fiscal year limitations, 
as provided by 31 U.S.C. 9104, such expenditures and 
commitments within the limits of funds available to it and 
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in accordance with law as may be necessary: Provided, 
That the amount available for administrative expenses to 
carry out the credit and insurance programs (including an 
amount for official reception and representation expenses 
which shall not exceed $35,000) shall not exceed 
$45,453,000: Provided further, That project-specific trans-
action costs, including direct and indirect costs incurred 
in claims settlements, and other direct costs associated 
with services provided to specific investors or potential in-
vestors pursuant to section 234 of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961, shall not be considered administrative ex-
penses for the purposes of this heading. 
PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, 
$20,035,000, as authorized by section 234 of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961, to be derived by transfer from 
the Overseas Private Investment Corporation Non-Credit 
Account: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of 
modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided fur-
ther, That such sums shall be available for direct loan obli-
gations and loan guaranty commitments incurred or made 
during fiscal years 2007, 2008, and 2009: Provided fur-
ther, That funds so obligated in fiscal year 2007 remain 
available for disbursement through 2014; funds obligated 
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in fiscal year 2008 remain available for disbursement 
through 2015; funds obligated in fiscal year 2009 remain 
available for disbursement through 2016: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Overseas Private Investment Corporation is authorized to 
undertake any program authorized by title IV of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961 in Iraq: Provided further, 
That funds made available pursuant to the authority of 
the previous proviso shall be subject to the regular notifi-
cation procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 
In addition, such sums as may be necessary for ad-
ministrative expenses to carry out the credit program may 
be derived from amounts available for administrative ex-
penses to carry out the credit and insurance programs in 
the Overseas Private Investment Corporation Non-Credit 
Account and merged with said account. 
TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 
of section 661 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
$50,300,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2008. 
TITLE II—BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 
For expenses necessary to enable the President to 
carry out the provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
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1961, and for other purposes, to remain available until 
September 30, 2007, unless otherwise specified herein, as 
follows: 
UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 
DEVELOPMENT 
CHILD SURVIVAL AND HEALTH PROGRAMS FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 
of chapters 1 and 10 of part I of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961, for child survival, health, and family plan-
ning/reproductive health activities, in addition to funds 
otherwise available for such purposes, $1,565,613,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2008: Provided, 
That this amount shall be made available for such activi-
ties as: (1) immunization programs; (2) oral rehydration 
programs; (3) health, nutrition, water and sanitation pro-
grams which directly address the needs of mothers and 
children, and related education programs; (4) assistance 
for children displaced or orphaned by causes other than 
AIDS; (5) programs for the prevention, treatment, control 
of, and research on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, polio, ma-
laria, and other infectious diseases, and for assistance to 
communities severely affected by HIV/AIDS, including 
children displaced or orphaned by AIDS; and (6) family 
planning/reproductive health: Provided further, That none 
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of the funds appropriated under this heading may be made 
available for nonproject assistance, except that funds may 
be made available for such assistance for ongoing health 
activities: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated 
under this heading, not to exceed $350,000, in addition 
to funds otherwise available for such purposes, may be 
used to monitor and provide oversight of child survival, 
maternal and family planning/reproductive health, and in-
fectious disease programs: Provided further, That the fol-
lowing 
amounts 
should 
be 
allocated 
as 
follows: 
$356,400,000 for child survival and maternal health; 
$25,000,000 for vulnerable children; $346,621,000 for 
HIV/AIDS; $287,592,000 for other infectious diseases; 
and $350,000,000 for family planning/reproductive health, 
including in areas where population growth threatens bio-
diversity or endangered species: Provided further, That of 
the funds appropriated under this heading, and in addition 
to funds allocated under the previous proviso, not less 
than $200,000,000 shall be made available, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, except for the United 
States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and 
Malaria Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–25), for a United 
States contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, 
Tuberculosis and Malaria (the ‘‘Global Fund’’), and shall 
be expended at the minimum rate necessary to make time-
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ly payment for projects and activities: Provided further, 
That funds appropriated under this heading, may be made 
available for a United States contribution to The GAVI 
Fund, and up to $6,000,000 may be transferred to and 
merged with funds appropriated by this Act under the 
heading ‘‘Operating Expenses of the United States Agency 
for International Development’’ for costs directly related 
to international health, but funds made available for such 
costs may not be derived from amounts made available 
for contributions under this and preceding provisos: Pro-
vided further, That none of the funds made available in 
this Act nor any unobligated balances from prior appro-
priations may be made available to any organization or 
program which, as determined by the President of the 
United States, supports or participates in the manage-
ment of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary 
sterilization: Provided further, That none of the funds 
made available under this Act may be used to pay for the 
performance of abortion as a method of family planning 
or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions: 
Provided further, That nothing in this paragraph shall be 
construed to alter any existing statutory prohibitions 
against abortion under section 104 of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961: Provided further, That none of the funds 
made available under this Act may be used to lobby for 
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or against abortion: Provided further, That in order to re-
duce reliance 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, and that 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 provision shall not be con-
strued to include the use of quantitative estimates or indi-
cators for budgeting and planning purposes); (2) the 
project shall not include payment of incentives, bribes, 
gratuities, or financial reward to: (A) an individual in ex-
change for becoming a family planning acceptor; or (B) 
program personnel for achieving a numerical target or 
quota of total number of births, number of family planning 
acceptors, or acceptors 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 pro-
gram 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 pro-
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vide family planning acceptors comprehensible information 
on the health benefits and risks of the method chosen, in-
cluding those conditions that might render the use of the 
method inadvisable and those adverse side effects known 
to be consequent to the use of the method; and (5) the 
project shall ensure that experimental contraceptive drugs 
and devices and medical procedures are provided only in 
the context of a scientific study in which participants are 
advised of potential risks and benefits; and, not less than 
60 days after the date on which the Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development de-
termines that there has been a violation of the require-
ments contained in paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (5) of this 
proviso, or a pattern or practice of violations of the re-
quirements contained in paragraph (4) of this proviso, the 
Administrator shall submit to the Committees on Appro-
priations a report containing a description of such viola-
tion and the corrective action taken by the Agency: Pro-
vided further, That in awarding grants for natural family 
planning under section 104 of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 no applicant shall be discriminated against be-
cause of such applicant’s religious or conscientious com-
mitment to offer only natural family planning; and, addi-
tionally, all such applicants shall comply with the require-
ments of the previous proviso: Provided further, That for 
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