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(d) FUNDING CLARIFICATION.— 
(1) Funds made available pursuant to sub-
section (b) are in addition to amounts otherwise 
made available for such purposes. 
(2) Funds appropriated by this Act and prior 
Acts making appropriations for the Department of 
State, foreign operations, and related programs 
under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ may 
be made available notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law for assistance for ethnic and religious 
minorities in Iraq and Syria. 
SPECIAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 7034. (a) VICTIMS OF WAR, DISPLACED CHIL-
DREN, AND DISPLACED BURMESE.—Funds appropriated 
in titles III and VI of this Act that are made available 
for victims of war, displaced children, displaced Burmese, 
and to combat trafficking in persons and assist victims 
of such trafficking, may be made available notwith-
standing any other provision of law. 
(b) FORENSIC ASSISTANCE.— 
(1) Of the funds appropriated by this Act under 
the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, not less 
than $10,000,000 shall be made available for foren-
sic anthropology assistance related to the exhuma-
tion and identification of victims of war crimes, 
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crimes against humanity, and genocide, which shall 
be administered by the Assistant Secretary for De-
mocracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Department of 
State: Provided, That such funds shall be in addition 
to funds made available by this Act and prior Acts 
making appropriations for the Department of State, 
foreign operations, and related programs for assist-
ance for countries. 
(2) Of the funds appropriated by this Act under 
the heading ‘‘International Narcotics Control and 
Law Enforcement’’, not less than $8,000,000 shall 
be made available for DNA forensic technology pro-
grams to combat human trafficking in Central 
America and Mexico. 
(c) ATROCITIES PREVENTION.—Of the funds appro-
priated by this Act under the headings ‘‘Economic Sup-
port Fund’’ and ‘‘International Narcotics Control and 
Law Enforcement’’, not less than $5,000,000 shall be 
made available for programs to prevent atrocities, includ-
ing to implement recommendations of the Atrocities Pre-
vention Board, or any successor entity: Provided, That the 
Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and 
Human Rights, Department of State, shall be responsible 
for providing the strategic policy direction for, and policy 
oversight of, funds made available pursuant to this sub-
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section to the Bureaus of International Narcotics and Law 
Enforcement Affairs and Democracy, Human Rights, and 
Labor, Department of State: Provided further, That funds 
made available pursuant to this subsection are in addition 
to amounts otherwise made available for such purposes: 
Provided further, That such funds shall be subject to the 
regular notification procedures of the Committees on Ap-
propriations. 
(d) WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME.—Funds managed by 
the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian 
Assistance, United States Agency for International Devel-
opment, from this or any other Act, may be made available 
as a general contribution to the World Food Programme, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law. 
(e) DIRECTIVES AND AUTHORITIES.— 
(1) RESEARCH AND TRAINING.—Funds appro-
priated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Assistance 
for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’ shall be 
made available to carry out the Program for Re-
search and Training on Eastern Europe and the 
Independent States of the Former Soviet Union as 
authorized by the Soviet-Eastern European Research 
and Training Act of 1983 (22 U.S.C. 4501 et seq.). 
(2) GENOCIDE
VICTIMS
MEMORIAL
SITES.— 
Funds appropriated by this Act and prior Acts mak-
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ing appropriations for the Department of State, for-
eign operations, and related programs under the 
headings ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ and ‘‘Assist-
ance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’ may be 
made available as contributions to establish and 
maintain memorial sites of genocide, subject to the 
regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
Appropriations. 
(3) 
ADDITIONAL
AUTHORITIES.—Of 
the 
amounts made available by title I of this Act under 
the heading ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’, up to $500,000 
may be made available for grants pursuant to sec-
tion 504 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
Fiscal Year 1979 (22 U.S.C. 2656d), including to 
facilitate collaboration with indigenous communities, 
and up to $1,000,000 may be made available for 
grants to carry out the activities of the Cultural An-
tiquities Task Force. 
(4) INNOVATION.—The USAID Administrator 
may use funds appropriated by this Act under title 
III to make innovation incentive awards: Provided, 
That each individual award may not exceed 
$100,000: Provided further, That no more than 10 
such awards may be made during fiscal year 2019: 
Provided further, That for purposes of this para-
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graph the term ‘‘innovation incentive award’’ means 
the provision of funding on a competitive basis 
that— 
(A) encourages and rewards the develop-
ment of solutions for a particular, well-defined 
problem related to the alleviation of poverty; or 
(B) helps identify and promote a broad 
range of ideas and practices facilitating further 
development of an idea or practice by third par-
ties. 
(5) EXCHANGE
VISITOR
PROGRAM.—None of 
the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to modify the Exchange Visitor Program adminis-
tered by the Department of State to implement the 
Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 
1961, as amended, (Public Law 87–256; 22 U.S.C. 
2451 et seq.), except through the formal rulemaking 
process pursuant to the Administrative Procedure 
Act and notwithstanding the exceptions to such rule-
making process in such Act: Provided, That funds 
made available for such purpose shall only be made 
available after consultation with, and subject to the 
regular notification procedures of, the Committees 
on Appropriations, regarding how any proposed 
modification would affect the public diplomacy goals 
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