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Act of 1961, the Department of Defense shall notify the Committees 
on Appropriations to the same extent and under the same conditions 
as other committees pursuant 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 Committees 
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 articles: Provided further, That such Committees 
shall also be informed of the original acquisition cost of such defense 
articles. 
LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR INTERNATIONAL 
ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMS 
SEC. 7017. Subject to the regular notification procedures of 
the Committees on Appropriations, funds appropriated under titles 
III through VI of this Act or any previously enacted Act making 
appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and 
related programs, which are returned or not made available for 
organizations and programs because of the implementation of sec-
tion 307(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, shall remain 
available for obligation until September 30, 2011. 
PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR ABORTIONS AND INVOLUNTARY 
STERILIZATION 
SEC. 7018. None of the funds made available to carry out 
part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may 
be used to pay for the performance of abortions as a method of 
family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice 
abortions. None of the funds made available to carry out part 
I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may be 
used to pay for the performance of involuntary sterilization as 
a method of family planning or to coerce or provide any financial 
incentive to any person to undergo sterilizations. None of the funds 
made available to carry out part I of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961, as amended, may be used to pay for any biomedical research 
which relates in whole or in part, to methods of, or the performance 
of, abortions or involuntary sterilization as a means of family plan-
ning. None of the funds made available to carry out part I of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may be obligated 
or expended for any country or organization if the President certifies 
that the use of these funds by any such country or organization 
would violate any of the above provisions related to abortions and 
involuntary sterilizations. 
ALLOCATIONS 
SEC. 7019. (a) Funds provided in this Act for the following 
accounts shall be made available for programs and countries in 
the amounts contained in the respective tables included in the 
joint explanatory statement accompanying this Act: 
‘‘American Sections, International Commissions’’.
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‘‘Civilian Stabilization Initiative’’. 
‘‘Diplomatic and Consular Programs’’. 
‘‘Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs’’. 
‘‘International Boundary and Water Commission, United 
States and Mexico’’. 
‘‘International Fisheries Commissions’’. 
‘‘International Broadcasting Operations’’. 
‘‘Global Health and Child Survival’’. 
‘‘Democracy Fund’’. 
‘‘Economic Support Fund’’. 
‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’. 
‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement’’. 
‘‘Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related 
Programs’’. 
‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’. 
‘‘Peacekeeping Operations’’. 
‘‘International Organizations and Programs’’. 
(b) For the purposes of implementing this section and only 
with respect to the tables included in the joint explanatory state-
ment accompanying this Act, the Secretary of State, the Adminis-
trator of the United States Agency for International Development 
and the Broadcasting Board of Governors, as appropriate, may 
propose deviations to the amounts referenced in subsection (a), 
subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees 
on Appropriations. 
(c) The requirements contained in subsection (a) shall apply 
to the tables under the headings ‘‘Bilateral Economic Assistance’’ 
and ‘‘General Provisions’’ in the joint explanatory statement. 
PROHIBITION OF PAYMENT OF CERTAIN EXPENSES 
SEC. 7020. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act under the headings ‘‘International Military 
Education and Training’’ or ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’ 
for Informational Program activities or under the headings ‘‘Global 
Health and Child Survival’’, ‘‘Development Assistance’’, and ‘‘Eco-
nomic Support Fund’’ may be obligated or expended to pay for— 
(1) alcoholic beverages; or 
(2) entertainment expenses for activities that are substan-
tially of a recreational character, including but not limited 
to entrance fees at sporting events, theatrical and musical 
productions, and amusement parks. 
PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS THAT EX-
PORT
LETHAL
MILITARY
EQUIPMENT
TO
COUNTRIES
SUPPORTING 
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM 
SEC. 7021. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by titles III through VI of this Act may be available 
to any foreign government which provides lethal military equipment 
to a country the government of which the Secretary of State has 
determined is a government that supports international terrorism 
for purposes of section 6(j) of the Export Administration Act of 
1979: Provided, That the prohibition under this section with respect 
to a foreign government shall terminate 12 months after that 
government ceases to provide such military equipment: Provided 
further, That this section applies with respect to lethal military
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equipment provided under a contract entered into after October 
1, 1997. 
(b) Assistance restricted by subsection (a) or any other similar 
provision of law, may be furnished if the President determines 
that to do so is important to the national interests of the United 
States. 
(c) Whenever the President makes a determination pursuant 
to subsection (b), the President shall submit to the Committees 
on Appropriations a report with respect to the furnishing of such 
assistance, including a detailed explanation of the assistance to 
be provided, the estimated dollar amount of such assistance, and 
an explanation of how the assistance furthers United States 
national interests. 
PROHIBITION ON BILATERAL ASSISTANCE TO TERRORIST COUNTRIES 
SEC. 7022. (a) Funds appropriated for bilateral assistance in 
titles III through VI of this Act and funds appropriated under 
any such heading in a provision of law enacted prior to the enact-
ment of this Act, shall not be made available to any country which 
the President determines— 
(1) grants sanctuary from prosecution to any individual 
or group which has committed an act of international terrorism; 
or 
(2) otherwise supports international terrorism. 
(b) The President may waive the application of subsection (a) 
to a country if the President determines that national security 
or humanitarian reasons justify such waiver: Provided, That the 
President shall publish each such waiver in the Federal 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 accordance with the regular notifica-
tion procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 
AUTHORIZATION REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 7023. Funds appropriated by this Act, except funds appro-
priated under the heading ‘‘Trade and Development Agency’’, may 
be obligated and expended notwithstanding section 10 of Public 
Law 91–672, section 15 of the State Department Basic Authorities 
Act of 1956, section 313 of the Foreign Relations Authorization 
Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103–236), and section 
504(a)(1) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414(a)(1)). 
DEFINITION OF PROGRAM, PROJECT, AND ACTIVITY 
SEC. 7024. For the purpose of titles II through VI of this 
Act ‘‘program, project, and activity’’ shall be defined at the appro-
priations Act account level and shall include all appropriations 
and authorizations Acts funding directives, ceilings, and limitations 
with the exception that for the following accounts: ‘‘Economic Sup-
port 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 assistance accounts of the United 
States Agency for International Development ‘‘program, project, 
and activity’’ shall also be considered to include central, country, 
regional, and program level funding, either as: (1) justified to the
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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. 
AUTHORITIES FOR THE PEACE CORPS, INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION 
AND AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION 
SEC. 7025. Unless expressly provided to the contrary, provisions 
of this or any other Act, including provisions contained in prior 
Acts authorizing or making appropriations for the Department of 
State, foreign operations, and related programs, shall not be con-
strued to prohibit activities authorized by or conducted under the 
Peace Corps Act, the Inter-American Foundation Act or the African 
Development Foundation Act: Provided, That the agency shall 
promptly report to the Committees on Appropriations whenever 
it is conducting activities or is proposing to conduct activities in 
a country for which assistance is prohibited. 
COMMERCE, TRADE AND SURPLUS COMMODITIES 
SEC. 7026. (a) None of the funds appropriated or made available 
pursuant to titles III through VI of this Act for direct assistance 
and none of the funds otherwise made available to the Export- 
Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation 
shall be obligated or expended to finance any loan, any assistance 
or any other financial commitments for establishing or expanding 
production of any commodity for export by any country other than 
the United States, if the commodity is likely to be in surplus 
on world markets at the time the resulting productive capacity 
is expected to become operative and if the assistance will cause 
substantial injury to United States producers of the same, similar, 
or competing commodity: Provided, That such prohibition shall not 
apply to the Export-Import Bank if in the judgment of its Board 
of Directors the benefits to industry and employment in the United 
States are likely to outweigh the injury to United States producers 
of the same, similar, or competing commodity, and the Chairman 
of the Board so notifies the Committees on Appropriations. 
(b) None of the funds appropriated by this or any other Act 
to carry out chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 shall be available for any testing or breeding feasibility 
study, variety improvement or introduction, consultancy, publica-
tion, conference, or training in connection with the growth or 
production in a foreign country of an agricultural commodity for 
export which would compete with a similar commodity grown or 
produced in the United States: Provided, That this subsection shall 
not prohibit— 
(1) activities designed to increase food security in devel-
oping countries where such activities will not have a significant 
impact on the export of agricultural commodities of the United 
States; or 
(2) research activities intended primarily to benefit Amer-
ican producers. 
(c) The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United 
States Executive Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruc-
tion and Development, the International Development Association,