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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3422
Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other
purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 17, 1999
Mr. YOUNG of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Appropriations
A BILL
Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financ-
ing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2000, 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, 2000, and for other pur-
poses, namely:
TITLE I—EXPORT AND INVESTMENT
ASSISTANCE
EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES
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
Act that has detonated a nuclear explosive after the date
of the enactment of this Act.
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,
$759,000,000 to remain available until September 30,
2003: 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, 2018 for the disbursement of direct loans, loan
guarantees, insurance and tied-aid grants obligated in fis-
cal years 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003: Provided further,
That none of the funds appropriated by this Act or any
prior Act appropriating funds for foreign operations, ex-
port financing, or related programs for tied-aid credits or
grants may be used for any other purpose except through
the regular notification procedures of the Committees on
Appropriations: Provided further, That funds appropriated
by this paragraph are made available notwithstanding sec-
tion 2(b)(2) of the Export Import Bank Act of 1945, in
connection with the purchase or lease of any product by
any East European country, any Baltic State or any agen-
cy or national thereof.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
For administrative expenses to carry out the direct
and guaranteed loan and insurance programs (to be com-
puted on an accrual basis), including hire of passenger
motor vehicles and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109, and not to exceed $25,000 for official reception and
representation expenses for members of the Board of Di-
rectors, $55,000,000: Provided, That necessary expenses
(including special services performed on a contract or fee
basis, but not including other personal services) in connec-
tion with the collection of moneys owed the Export-Import
Bank, repossession or sale of pledged collateral or other
assets acquired by the Export-Import Bank in satisfaction
of moneys owed the Export-Import Bank, or the investiga-
tion or appraisal of any property, or the evaluation of the
legal or technical aspects of any transaction for which an
application for a loan, guarantee or insurance commitment
has been made, shall be considered nonadministrative ex-
penses for the purposes of this heading: 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, 2000.
OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION
NONCREDIT 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
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
$35,000,000: 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,
$24,000,000, as authorized by section 234 of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 to be derived by transfer from the
Overseas Private Investment Corporation noncredit ac-
count: 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 2000 and 2001: Provided further, That
such sums shall remain available through fiscal year 2008
for the disbursement of direct and guaranteed loans obli-
gated in fiscal year 2000, and through fiscal year 2009
for the disbursement of direct and guaranteed loans obli-
gated in fiscal year 2001: Provided further, That in addi-
tion, such sums as may be necessary for administrative
expenses to carry out the credit program may be derived
from amounts available for administrative expenses to
carry out the credit and insurance programs in the Over-
seas Private Investment Corporation Noncredit Account
and merged with said account: Provided further, That
funds made available under this heading or in prior appro-
priations Acts that are available for the cost of financing
under section 234 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
shall be available for purposes of section 234(g) of such
Act, to remain available until expended.
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT
TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of section 661 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
$44,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
2001: Provided, That the Trade and Development Agency
may receive reimbursements from corporations and other
entities for the costs of grants for feasibility studies and
other project planning services, to be deposited as an off-
setting collection to this account and to be available for
obligation until September 30, 2001, for necessary ex-
penses under this paragraph: Provided further, That such
reimbursements shall not cover, or be allocated against,
direct or indirect administrative costs of the agency.
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
1961, and for other purposes, to remain available until
September 30, 2000, unless otherwise specified herein, as
follows:
AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
CHILD SURVIVAL AND DISEASE PROGRAMS FUND
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, basic education, assistance
to combat tropical and other diseases, and related activi-
ties, in addition to funds otherwise available for such pur-
poses, $715,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That this amount shall be made available for
such activities as: (1) immunization programs; (2) oral re-
hydration programs; (3) health and nutrition programs,
and related education programs, which address the needs
of mothers and children; (4) water and sanitation pro-
grams; (5) assistance for displaced and orphaned children;
(6) programs for the prevention, treatment, and control
of, and research on, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, polio, ma-
laria and other diseases; and (7) up to $98,000,000 for
basic education programs for children: Provided further,
That none of the funds appropriated under this heading
may be made available for nonproject assistance for health
and child survival programs, except that funds may be
made available for such assistance for ongoing health pro-
grams: Provided further, That $35,000,000 shall be avail-
able only for the HIV/AIDS programs requested under
this heading in House Document 106–101.
DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of sections 103 through 106, and chapter 10 of part I
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, title V of the Inter-
national Security and Development Cooperation Act of
1980 (Public Law 96–533) and the provisions of section
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$1,228,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
2001: Provided, That of the amount appropriated under
this heading, up to $5,000,000 may be made available for
and apportioned directly to the Inter-American Founda-
tion: Provided further, That of the amount appropriated
under this heading, up to $14,400,000 may be made avail-
able for the African Development Foundation and shall
be apportioned directly to that agency: Provided further,
That none of the funds made available in this Act nor
any unobligated balances from prior appropriations may
be made available to any organization or program which,
as determined by the President of the United States, sup-
ports or participates in the management of a program of
coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization: Provided fur-
ther, That none of the funds made available under this
heading may be used to pay for the performance of abor-
tion as a method of family planning or to motivate or co-
erce any person to practice abortions; and that in order
to reduce 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-
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 Committee on Inter-
national Relations and the Committee on Appropriations
of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on
Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations
of the Senate, a report containing a description of such
violation and the corrective action taken by the Agency:
Provided further, That in awarding grants for natural
family planning under section 104 of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 no applicant shall be discriminated
against because of such applicant’s religious or conscien-
tious commitment to offer only natural family planning;
and, additionally, all such applicants shall comply with the
requirements of the previous proviso: Provided further,
That for purposes of this or any other Act authorizing
or appropriating funds for foreign operations, export fi-
nancing, and related programs, the term ‘‘motivate’’, as
it relates to family planning assistance, shall not be con-
strued to prohibit the provision, consistent with local law,
of information or counseling about all pregnancy options:
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, notwithstanding
section 109 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, of the
funds appropriated under this heading in this Act, and
of the unobligated balances of funds previously appro-
priated under this heading, $2,500,000 may be trans-
ferred to ‘‘International Organizations and Programs’’ for
a contribution to the International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD): Provided further, That none of the
funds appropriated under this heading may be made avail-
able for any activity which is in contravention to the Con-
vention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
Flora and Fauna (CITES): Provided further, That of the
funds appropriated under this heading that are made
available for assistance programs for displaced and or-
phaned children and victims of war, not to exceed
$25,000, in addition to funds otherwise available for such
purposes, may be used to monitor and provide oversight
of such programs: Provided further, That of the funds ap-
propriated under this heading not less than $500,000
should be made available for support of the United States
Telecommunications Training Institute: Provided further,
That, of the funds appropriated by this Act for the Micro-
enterprise Initiative (including any local currencies made
available for the purposes of the Initiative), not less than
one-half should be made available for programs providing
loans of less than $300 to very poor people, particularly
women, or for institutional support of organizations pri-
marily engaged in making such loans.
CYPRUS
Of the funds appropriated under the headings ‘‘De-
velopment Assistance’’ and ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’,
not less than $15,000,000 shall be made available for Cy-
prus to be used only for scholarships, administrative sup-
port of the scholarship program, bicommunal projects, and
measures aimed at reunification of the island and designed
to reduce tensions and promote peace and cooperation be-
tween the two communities on Cyprus.
LEBANON
Of the funds appropriated under the headings ‘‘De-
velopment Assistance’’ and ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’,
not less than $15,000,000 should be made available for
Lebanon to be used, among other programs, for scholar-
ships and direct support of the American educational insti-
tutions in Lebanon.
BURMA
Of the funds appropriated under the headings ‘‘Eco-
nomic Support Fund’’, ‘‘Child Survival and Disease Pro-
grams Fund’’ and ‘‘Development Assistance’’, not less
than $6,500,000 shall be made available to support de-
mocracy activities in Burma, democracy and humanitarian
activities along the Burma-Thailand border, and for Bur-
mese student groups and other organizations located out-
side Burma: Provided, That funds made available for
Burma-related activities under this heading may be made
available notwithstanding any other provision of law: Pro-
vided further, That the provision of such funds shall be
made available subject to the regular notification proce-
dures of the Committees on Appropriations.
PRIVATE AND VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS
None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act for development assistance may be
made available to any United States private and voluntary
organization, except any cooperative development organi-
zation, which obtains less than 20 percent of its total an-
nual funding for international activities from sources other
than the United States Government: Provided, That the
Administrator of the Agency for International Develop-
ment may, on a case-by-case basis, waive the restriction
contained in this paragraph, after taking into account the
effectiveness of the overseas development activities of the
organization, its level of volunteer support, its financial
viability and stability, and the degree of its dependence
for its financial support on the agency.
Funds appropriated or otherwise made available
under title II of this Act should be made available to pri-
vate and voluntary organizations at a level which is at
least equivalent to the level provided in fiscal year 1995.
INTERNATIONAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE
For necessary expenses for international disaster re-
lief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction assistance pursuant
to section 491 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as
amended, $202,880,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That the Agency for International De-
velopment shall submit a report to the Committees on Ap-
propriations at least 5 days prior to providing assistance
through the Office of Transition Initiatives for a country
that did not receive such assistance in fiscal year 1999.
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 Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That guaran-
tees of loans made under this heading in support of micro-
enterprise 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 ad-
dition, for administrative expenses to carry out programs
under this heading, $500,000, all of which may be trans-
ferred to and merged with the appropriation for Operating
Expenses of the Agency for International Development:
Provided further, That funds made available under this
heading shall remain available until September 30, 2001.
URBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL CREDIT PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974, of guaranteed loans au-
thorized by sections 221 and 222 of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961, $1,500,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That these funds are available to sub-
sidize loan principal, 100 percent of which shall be guaran-
teed, pursuant to the authority of such sections. In addi-
tion, for administrative expenses to carry out guaranteed
loan programs, $5,000,000, all of which may be trans-
ferred 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) of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
DEVELOPMENT CREDIT AUTHORITY PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost of direct loans and loan guarantees, up
to $3,000,000 to be derived by transfer from funds appro-
priated by this Act to carry out part I of the Foreign As-
sistance Act of 1961, as amended, and funds appropriated
by this Act under the heading, ‘‘ASSISTANCE FOR EAST-
ERN EUROPE AND THE BALTIC STATES’’, to remain avail-
able until expended, as authorized by section 635 of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: 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 further, That for administrative ex-
penses to carry out the direct and guaranteed loan pro-
grams, up to $500,000 of this amount may be transferred
to and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Operating Ex-
penses of the Agency for International Development’’: Pro-
vided further, That the provisions of section 107A(d) (re-
lating to general provisions applicable to the Development
Credit Authority) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
as contained in section 306 of H.R. 1486 as reported by
the House Committee on International Relations on May
9, 1997, shall be applicable to direct loans and loan guar-
antees provided under this heading.
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, $43,837,000.
OPERATING EXPENSES OF THE AGENCY FOR
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of section 667, $520,000,000: Provided, That, none of the
funds appropriated under this heading may be made avail-
able to finance the construction (including architect and
engineering services), purchase, or long term lease of of-
fices for use by the Agency for International Development,
unless the Administrator has identified such proposed con-
struction (including architect and engineering services),
purchase, or long term lease of offices in a report sub-
mitted to the Committees on Appropriations at least 15
days prior to the obligation of these funds for such pur-
poses: Provided further, That the previous proviso shall
not apply where the total cost of construction (including
architect and engineering services), purchase, or long term
lease of offices does not exceed $1,000,000.
OPERATING
EXPENSES
OF
THE
AGENCY
FOR
INTER-
NATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
OFFICE
OF
INSPECTOR
GENERAL
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of section 667, $25,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2001, which sum shall be available for the Of-
fice of the Inspector General of the Agency for Inter-
national Development.
OTHER BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUND
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of chapter 4 of part II, $2,345,500,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2001: Provided, That of the
funds appropriated under this heading, not less than
$960,000,000 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 the enactment of this
Act or by October 31, 1999, whichever is later: Provided
further, That not less than $735,000,000 shall be available
only for Egypt, which sum shall be provided on a grant
basis, and of which sum cash transfer assistance shall be
provided with the understanding that Egypt will under-
take significant economic reforms which are additional to
those which were undertaken in previous fiscal years, and
of which not less than $200,000,000 shall be provided as
Commodity Import Program assistance: 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 and that Israel enters into a side
letter agreement at least equivalent to the fiscal year 1999
agreement: Provided further, That of the funds appro-
priated under this heading, not less than $150,000,000
should be made available for assistance for Jordan: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds appropriated under this
heading, not less than $25,000,000 should be made avail-
able for assistance for East Timor: Provided further, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, not to exceed
$11,000,000 may be used to support victims of and pro-
grams related to the Holocaust: Provided further, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the funds
appropriated under this heading, $1,000,000 shall be
made available to nongovernmental organizations located
outside of the People’s Republic of China to support activi-
ties which preserve cultural traditions and promote sus-
tainable development and environmental conservation in
Tibetan communities in that country.
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 provi-
sions of the Anglo-Irish Agreement Support Act of 1986
(Public Law 99–415): Provided, That such amount shall
be expended at the minimum rate necessary to make time-
ly payment for projects and activities: Provided further,
That funds made available under this heading shall re-
main available until September 30, 2001.
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,
$535,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
2001, which shall be available, notwithstanding any other
provision of law, for assistance and for related programs
for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States: Provided, That
of the funds appropriated under this heading not less than
$150,000,000 should be made available for assistance for
Kosova: Provided further, That of the funds made avail-
able under this heading and the headings ‘‘International
Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement’’ and ‘‘Economic
Support Fund’’, not to exceed $130,000,000 shall be made
available for Bosnia and Herzegovina: Provided further,
That none of the funds made available under this heading
for Kosova shall be made available until the Secretary of
State certifies that the resources pledged by the United
States at the upcoming Kosova donors conference shall
not exceed 15 percent of the total resources pledged by
all donors: Provided further, That none of the funds made
available under this heading for Kosova shall be made
available for large scale physical infrastructure reconstruc-
tion.
(b) Funds appropriated under this heading or in prior
appropriations Acts that are or have been made available
for an Enterprise Fund may be deposited by such Fund
in interest-bearing accounts prior to the Fund’s disburse-
ment 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 Treas-
ury 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 authorities contained in that Act for
the use of economic assistance.
(d) None of the funds appropriated under this head-
ing 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 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 program) the Administrator of the
Agency for International Development shall provide writ-
ten approval for grants and loans prior to the obligation
and expenditure of funds for such purposes, and prior to
the use of funds that have been returned or repaid to any
lending facility or grantee.
(f ) The provisions of section 532 of this Act shall
apply to funds made available under subsection (e) and
to funds appropriated under this heading.
(g) The President is authorized to withhold funds ap-
propriated under this heading made available for economic
revitalization programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, if he
determines and certifies to the Committees on Appropria-
tions 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, investiga-
tions, and related activities between Iranian officials and
Bosnian officials has not been terminated.
ASSISTANCE FOR THE INDEPENDENT STATES OF THE
FORMER SOVIET UNION
(a) For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of chapter 11 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961 and the FREEDOM Support Act, for assistance for
the Independent States of the former Soviet Union and
for related programs, $839,000,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2001: Provided, That the provisions
of such chapter shall apply to funds appropriated by this
paragraph: Provided further, That such sums as may be
necessary may be transferred to the Export-Import Bank
of the United States for the cost of any financing under
the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 for activities for the
Independent States: Provided further, That of the funds
made available for the Southern Caucasus region, 15 per-
cent should be used for confidence-building measures and
other activities in furtherance of the peaceful resolution
of the regional conflicts, especially those in the vicinity of
(3) any activity carried out by a member of the
United States and Foreign Commercial Service while
acting within his or her official capacity;
(4) any insurance, reinsurance, guarantee, or
other assistance provided by the Overseas Private
Investment Corporation under title IV of chapter 2
of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22
U.S.C. 2191 et seq.);
(5) any financing provided under the Export-
Import Bank Act of 1945; or
(6) humanitarian assistance.
(f ) Of the funds made available under this heading
for nuclear safety activities, not to exceed 9 percent of
the funds provided for any single project may be used to
pay for management costs incurred by a United States
national lab in administering said project.
(g) Not more than 25 percent of the funds appro-
priated under this heading may be made available for as-
sistance for any country in the region. Activities author-
ized under title V (nonproliferation and disarmament pro-
grams and activities) of the FREEDOM Support Act shall
not be counted against the 25 percent limitation.
(h) Of the funds appropriated under title II of this
Act not less than $12,000,000 should be made available
for assistance for Mongolia of which not less than
$6,000,000 should be made available from funds appro-
priated under this heading: Provided, That funds made
available for assistance for Mongolia may be made avail-
able in accordance with the purposes and utilizing the au-
thorities provided in chapter 11 of part I of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961.
(i)(1) Of the funds appropriated under this heading
that are allocated for assistance for the Government of
the Russian Federation, 50 percent shall be withheld from
obligation until the President determines and certifies in
writing to the Committees on Appropriations that the Gov-
ernment of the Russian Federation has terminated imple-
mentation of arrangements to provide Iran with technical
expertise, training, technology, or equipment necessary to
develop a nuclear reactor, related nuclear research facili-
ties or programs, or ballistic missile capability.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to—
(A) assistance to combat infectious diseases and
child survival activities; and
(B) activities authorized under title V (Non-
proliferation and Disarmament Programs and Ac-
tivities) of the FREEDOM Support Act.
( j) None of the funds appropriated under this head-
ing may be made available for the Government of the Rus-
sian Federation, until the Secretary of State certifies to
the Committees on Appropriations that: (1) Russian
armed and peacekeeping forces deployed in Kosova have
not established a separate sector of operational control;
and (2) any Russian armed forces deployed in Kosova are
operating under NATO unified command and control ar-
rangements.
(k) Of the funds appropriated under this title, not
less than $14,700,000 shall be made available for mater-
nal and neo-natal health activities in the independent
states of the former Soviet Union, of which at least 60
percent should be made available for the preventive care
and treatment of mothers and infants in Russia.
INDEPENDENT AGENCY
PEACE CORPS
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of the Peace Corps Act (75 Stat. 612), $245,000,000, in-
cluding the purchase of not to exceed five passenger motor
vehicles for administrative purposes for use outside of the
United States: Provided, That none of the funds appro-
priated under this heading shall be used to pay for abor-
tions: Provided further, That funds appropriated under
this heading shall remain available until September 30,
2001.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL AND LAW
ENFORCEMENT
For necessary expenses to carry out section 481 of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, $305,000,000, of
which $21,000,000 shall become available for obligation
on September 30, 2000, and remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That of this amount not less than
$10,000,000 should be made available for Law Enforce-
ment Training and Demand Reduction: Provided further,
That any funds made available under this heading for
anti-crime programs and activities shall be made available
subject to the regular notification procedures of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations: Provided further, That during
fiscal year 2000, the Department of State may also use
the authority of section 608 of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961, without regard to its restrictions, to receive ex-
cess property from an agency of the United States Govern-
ment for the purpose of providing it to a foreign country
under chapter 8 of part I of that Act subject to the regular
notification procedures of the Committees on Appropria-
tions: Provided further, That in addition to any funds pre-
viously made available to establish and operate the Inter-
national Law Enforcement Academy for the Western
Hemisphere, not less than $5,000,000 shall be made avail-
able to establish and operate the International Law En-
forcement Academy for the Western Hemisphere at the
deBremmond Training Center in Roswell, New Mexico.
MIGRATION AND REFUGEE ASSISTANCE
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary
to enable the Secretary of State to provide, as authorized
by law, a contribution to the International Committee of
the Red Cross, assistance to refugees, including contribu-
tions to the International Organization for Migration and
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and
other activities to meet refugee and migration needs; sala-
ries and expenses of personnel and dependents as author-
ized by the Foreign Service Act of 1980; allowances as
authorized by sections 5921 through 5925 of title 5,
United States Code; purchase and hire of passenger motor
vehicles; and services as authorized by section 3109 of title
5, 
United 
States 
Code, 
$625,000,000, 
of 
which
$21,000,000 shall become available for obligation on Sep-
tember 30, 2000, and remain available until expended:
Provided, That not more than $13,800,000 shall be avail-
able for administrative expenses: Provided further, That
not less than $60,000,000 shall be made available for refu-
gees from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
and other refugees resettling in Israel.
UNITED STATES EMERGENCY REFUGEE AND MIGRATION
ASSISTANCE FUND
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of section 2(c) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance
Act 
of 
1962, 
as 
amended 
(22 
U.S.C. 
260(c)),
$12,500,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That the funds made available under this heading
are appropriated notwithstanding the provisions contained
in section 2(c)(2) of the Act which would limit the amount
of funds which could be appropriated for this purpose.
NONPROLIFERATION, ANTI-TERRORISM, DEMINING AND
RELATED PROGRAMS
For necessary expenses for nonproliferation, anti-ter-
rorism and related programs and activities, $216,600,000,
to carry out the provisions of chapter 8 of part II of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for anti-terrorism assist-
ance, section 504 of the FREEDOM Support Act for the
Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund, section 23 of
the Arms Export Control Act or the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961 for demining activities, the clearance of
unexploded ordnance, and related activities, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, including activities
implemented through nongovernmental and international
organizations, section 301 of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961 for a voluntary contribution to the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and a voluntary contribu-
tion to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Orga-
nization (KEDO), and for a United States contribution
to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Pre-
paratory Commission: Provided, That the Secretary of
State shall inform the Committees on Appropriations at
least 20 days prior to the obligation of funds for the Com-
prehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Preparatory Com-
mission: Provided further, That of this amount not to ex-
ceed $15,000,000, to remain available until expended, may
be made available for the Nonproliferation and Disar-
mament Fund, notwithstanding any other provision of
law, to promote bilateral and multilateral activities relat-
ing to nonproliferation and disarmament: Provided fur-
ther, That such funds may also be used for such countries
other than the Independent States of the former Soviet
Union and international organizations when it is in the
national security interest of the United States to do so:
Provided further, That such funds shall be subject to the
regular notification procedures of the Committees on Ap-
propriations: Provided further, That funds appropriated
under this heading may be made available for the Inter-
national Atomic Energy Agency only if the Secretary of
State determines (and so reports to the Congress) that
Israel is not being denied its right to participate in the
activities of that Agency: Provided further, That of the
funds appropriated under this heading, $40,000,000
should be made available for demining, clearance of
unexploded ordnance, and related activities: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds made available for demining and
related activities, not to exceed $500,000, in addition to
funds otherwise available for such purposes, may be used
for administrative expenses related to the operation and
management of the demining program.
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of section 129 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (re-
lating to international affairs technical assistance activi-
ties), $1,500,000, to remain available until expended,
which shall be available nowithstanding and other provi-
sion of law.
DEBT RESTRUCTURING
For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974, of modifying loans and
loan guarantees, as the President may determine, for
which funds have been appropriated or otherwise made
available for programs within the International Affairs
Budget Function 150, including the cost of selling, reduc-
ing, or canceling amounts owed to the United States as
a result of concessional loans made to eligible countries,
pursuant to parts IV and V of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961 (including up to $1,000,000 for necessary ex-
penses for the administration of activities carried out
under these parts), and of modifying concessional credit
agreements with least developed countries, as authorized
under section 411 of the Agricultural Trade Development
and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended, and concessional
loans, guarantees and credit agreements, as authorized
under section 572 of the Foreign Operations, Export Fi-
nancing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1989
(Public Law 100–461), $123,000,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That of this amount, not less
than $13,000,000 shall be made available to carry out the
provisions of part V of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961: Provided, That any limitation of subsection (e) of
section 411 of the Agricultural Trade Development and
Assistance Act of 1954 shall not apply to funds appro-
priated hereunder or previously appropriated under this
heading: Provided further, That the authority provided by
section 572 of Public Law 100–461 may be exercised only
with respect to countries that are eligible to borrow from
the International Development Association, but not from
the International Bank for Reconstruction and Develop-
ment, commonly referred to as ‘‘IDA-only’’ countries.
UNITED STATES COMMUNITY ADJUSTMENT AND
INVESTMENT PROGRAM
For the United States Community Adjustment and
Investment Program authorized by section 543 of the
North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation
Act, $10,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
2001: Provided, That the Secretary may transfer such
funds to the North American Development Bank and/or
to one or more Federal agencies for the purpose of ena-
bling the Bank or such Federal agencies to assist in car-
rying out the program by providing technical assistance,
grants, loans, loan guarantees, and other financial sub-
sidies endorsed by the interagency finance committee es-
tablished by section 7 of Executive Order No. 12916: Pro-
vided further, That no portion of such funds may be trans-
ferred to the Bank unless the Secretary shall have first
entered into an agreement with the Bank that provides
that any such funds may not be used for the Bank’s ad-
ministrative expenses: Provided further, That any funds
transferred to the Bank under this heading will be in addi-
tion to the 10 percent of the paid-in capital paid to the
Bank by the United States referred to in section 543 of
the Act: Provided further, That any funds transferred to
any Federal agency under this heading will be in addition
to amounts otherwise provided to such agency: Provided
further, That any funds transferred to an agency under
this heading shall be subject to the same terms and condi-
tions as the account to which transferred.
TITLE III—MILITARY ASSISTANCE
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT
INTERNATIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION AND TRAINING
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of section 541 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
$50,000,000, of which up to $1,000,000 may remain
available until expended: Provided, That the civilian per-
sonnel for whom military education and training may be
provided under this heading may include civilians who are
not members of a government whose participation would
contribute to improved civil-military relations, civilian con-
trol of the military, or respect for human rights: Provided
further, That funds appropriated under this heading for
grant financed military education and training for Indo-
nesia and Guatemala may only be available for expanded
international military education and training and funds
made available for Guatemala may only be provided
through the regular notification procedures of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations: Provided further, That none of
the funds appropriated under this heading may be made
available to support grant financed military education and
training at the School of the Americas unless the Sec-
retary of Defense certifies that the instruction and train-
ing provided by the School of the Americas is fully con-
sistent with training and doctrine, particularly with re-
spect to the observance of human rights, provided by the
Department of Defense to United States military students
at Department of Defense institutions whose primary pur-
pose is to train United States military personnel: Provided
further, That the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the
Committees on Appropriations, no later than January 15,
2000, a report detailing the training activities of the
School of the Americas and a general assessment regard-
ing the performance of its graduates during 1997 and
1998.
FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING PROGRAM
For expenses necessary for grants to enable the
President to carry out the provisions of section 23 of the
Arms Export Control Act, $3,420,000,000: Provided,
That of the funds appropriated under this heading, not
less than $1,920,000,000 shall be available for grants only
for Israel, and not less than $1,300,000,000 shall be made
available for grants only for Egypt: Provided further, That
the funds appropriated by this paragraph for Israel shall
be disbursed within 30 days of the enactment of this Act
or by October 31, 1999, whichever is later: Provided fur-
ther, That to the extent that the Government of Israel re-
quests that funds be used for such purposes, grants made
available for Israel by this paragraph shall, as agreed by
Israel and the United States, be available for advanced
weapons systems, of which not less than 26.3 percent shall
be available for the procurement in Israel of defense arti-
cles and defense services, including research and develop-
ment: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated by
this paragraph, not less than $75,000,000 should be avail-
able for assistance for Jordan: Provided further, That of
the funds appropriated by this paragraph, not less than
$7,000,000 shall be made available for assistance for Tu-
nisia: Provided further, That during fiscal year 2000, the
President is authorized to, and shall, direct the draw-
downs of defense articles from the stocks of the Depart-
ment of Defense, defense services of the Department of
Defense, and military education and training of an aggre-
gate value of not less than $4,000,000 under the authority
of this proviso for Tunisia for the purposes of part II of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and any amount so
directed shall count toward meeting the earmark in the
preceding proviso: Provided further, That of the funds ap-
propriated by this paragraph up to $1,000,000 should be
made available for assistance for Ecuador and shall be
subject to the regular notification procedures of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations: Provided further, That funds
appropriated by this paragraph shall be nonrepayable not-
withstanding any requirement in section 23 of the Arms
Export Control Act: Provided further, That funds made
available under this paragraph shall be obligated upon ap-
portionment in accordance with paragraph (5)(C) of title
31, United States Code, section 1501(a).
None of the funds made available under this heading
shall be available to finance the procurement of defense
articles, defense services, or design and construction serv-
ices that are not sold by the United States Government
under the Arms Export Control Act unless the foreign
country proposing to make such procurements has first
signed an agreement with the United States Government
specifying the conditions under which such procurements
may be financed with such funds: Provided, That all coun-
try and funding level increases in allocations shall be sub-
mitted through the regular notification procedures of sec-
tion 515 of this Act: Provided further, That none of the
funds appropriated under this heading shall be available
for assistance for Sudan and Liberia: Provided further,
That funds made available under this heading may be
used, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for
demining, the clearance of unexploded ordnance, and re-
lated activities, and may include activities implemented
through nongovernmental and international organizations:
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated
under this heading shall be available for assistance for
Guatemala: Provided further, That only those countries for
which assistance was justified for the ‘‘Foreign Military
Sales Financing Program’’ in the fiscal year 1989 con-
gressional presentation for security assistance programs
may utilize funds made available under this heading for
procurement of defense articles, defense services or design
and construction services that are not sold by the United
States Government under the Arms Export Control Act:
Provided further, That funds appropriated under this
heading shall be expended at the minimum rate necessary
to make timely payment for defense articles and services:
Provided further, That not more than $30,495,000 of the
funds appropriated under this heading may be obligated
for necessary expenses, including the purchase of pas-
senger motor vehicles for replacement only for use outside
of the United States, for the general costs of admin-
istering military assistance and sales: Provided further,
That not more than $330,000,000 of funds realized pursu-
ant to section 21(e)(1)(A) of the Arms Export Control Act
may be obligated for expenses incurred by the Department
of Defense during fiscal year 2000 pursuant to section
43(b) of the Arms Export Control Act, except that this
limitation may be exceeded only through the regular notifi-
cation procedures of the Committees on Appropriations:
Provided further, That not later than 45 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense
shall report to the Committees on Appropriations regard-
ing the appropriate host institution to support and ad-
vance the efforts of the Defense Institute for International
and Legal Studies in both legal and political education:
Provided further, That none of the funds made available
under this heading shall be available for any non-NATO
country participating in the Partnership for Peace Pro-
gram except through the regular notification procedures
of the Committees on Appropriations.
PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of section 551 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
$153,000,000: Provided, That none of the funds appro-
priated under this heading shall be obligated or expended
except as provided through the regular notification proce-
dures of the Committees on Appropriations.
TITLE IV—MULTILATERAL ECONOMIC
ASSISTANCE
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY
For the United States contribution for the Global En-
vironment Facility, $35,800,000, to the International
Bank for Reconstruction and Development as trustee for
the Global Environment Facility, by the Secretary of the
Treasury, to remain available until expended.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
ASSOCIATION
For payment to the International Development Asso-
ciation by the Secretary of the Treasury, $775,000,000,
to remain available until expended.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT
GUARANTEE AGENCY
For payment to the Multilateral Investment Guar-
antee Agency by the Secretary of the Treasury,
$4,000,000, for the United States paid-in share of the in-
crease in capital stock, to remain available until expended.
LIMITATION ON CALLABLE CAPITAL
The United States Governor of the Multilateral In-
vestment Guarantee Agency may subscribe without fiscal
year limitation for the callable capital portion of the
United States share of such capital stock in an amount
not to exceed $20,000,000.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTER-AMERICAN INVESTMENT
CORPORATION
For payment to the Inter-American Investment Cor-
poration, by the Secretary of the Treasury, $16,000,000,
for the United States share of the increase in subscrip-
tions to capital stock, to remain available until expended.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT
BANK
For payment to the Inter-American Development
Bank by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the United
States share of the paid-in share portion of the increase
in capital stock, $25,610,667.
LIMITATION ON CALLABLE CAPITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS
The United States Governor of the Inter-American
Development Bank may subscribe without fiscal year limi-
tation to the callable capital portion of the United States
share of such capital stock in an amount not to exceed
$1,503,718,910.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
For payment to the Asian Development Bank by the
Secretary of the Treasury for the United States share of
the paid-in portion of the increase in capital stock,
$13,728,263, to remain available until expended.
LIMITATION ON CALLABLE CAPITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS
The United States Governor of the Asian Develop-
ment Bank may subscribe without fiscal year limitation
to the callable capital portion of the United States share
of such capital stock in an amount not to exceed
$672,745,205.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT FUND
For the United States contribution by the Secretary
of the Treasury to the increase in resources of the Asian
Development Fund, as authorized by the Asia Develop-
ment Bank Act, as amended, $77,000,000, to remain
available until expended, for contributions previously due.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
For payment to the African Development Bank by
the Secretary of the Treasury, $4,100,000, for the United
States paid-in share of the increase in capital stock, to
remain available until expended.
LIMITATION ON CALLABLE CAPITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS
The United States Governor of the African Develop-
ment Bank may subscribe without fiscal year limitation
for the callable capital portion of the United States share
of such capital stock in an amount not to exceed
$64,000,000.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FUND
For the United States contribution by the Secretary
of the Treasury to the increase in resources of the African
Development Fund, $128,000,000, to remain available
until expended.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE EUROPEAN BANK FOR
RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT
For payment to the European Bank for Reconstruc-
tion and Development by the Secretary of the Treasury,
$35,778,717, for the United States share of the paid-in
portion of the increase in capital stock, to remain available
until expended.
LIMITATION ON CALLABLE CAPITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS
The United States Governor of the European Bank
for Reconstruction and Development may subscribe with-
out fiscal year limitation to the callable capital portion of
the United States share of such capital stock in an amount
not to exceed $123,237,803.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMS
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of section 301 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and
of section 2 of the United Nations Environment Program
Participation Act of 1973, $183,000,000: Provided, That
none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall
be made available for the United Nations Fund for
Science and Technology: Provided further, That not less
than $5,000,000 should be made available to the World
Food Program: Provided further, That none of the funds
appropriated under this heading may be made available
to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organiza-
tion (KEDO) or the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA).
TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS
OBLIGATIONS DURING LAST MONTH OF AVAILABILITY
SEC. 501. Except for the appropriations entitled
‘‘International Disaster Assistance’’, and ‘‘United States
Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund’’, not
more than 15 percent of any appropriation item made
available by this Act shall be obligated during the last
month of availability.
PROHIBITION OF BILATERAL FUNDING FOR
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
SEC. 502. Notwithstanding section 614 of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961, none of the funds contained
in title II of this Act may be used to carry out the provi-
sions of section 209(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated by
title II of this Act may be transferred by the Agency for
International Development directly to an international fi-
nancial institution (as defined in section 533 of this Act)
for the purpose of repaying a foreign country’s loan obliga-
tions to such institution.
LIMITATION ON RESIDENCE EXPENSES
SEC. 503. Of the funds appropriated or made avail-
able pursuant to this Act, not to exceed $126,500 shall
be for official residence expenses of the Agency for Inter-
national Development during the current fiscal year: Pro-
vided, That appropriate steps shall be taken to assure
that, to the maximum extent possible, United States-
owned foreign currencies are utilized in lieu of dollars.
LIMITATION ON EXPENSES
SEC. 504. Of the funds appropriated or made avail-
able pursuant to this Act, not to exceed $5,000 shall be
for entertainment expenses of the Agency for International
Development during the current fiscal year.
LIMITATION ON REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCES
SEC. 505. Of the funds appropriated or made avail-
able pursuant to this Act, not to exceed $95,000 shall be
available for representation allowances for the Agency for
International Development during the current fiscal year:
Provided, That appropriate steps shall be taken to assure
that, to the maximum extent possible, United States-
owned foreign currencies are utilized in lieu of dollars:
Provided further, That of the funds made available by this
Act for general costs of administering military assistance
and sales under the heading ‘‘Foreign Military Financing
Program’’, not to exceed $2,000 shall be available for en-
tertainment expenses and not to exceed $50,000 shall be
available for representation allowances: Provided further,
That of the funds made available by this Act under the
heading ‘‘International Military Education and Training’’,
not to exceed $50,000 shall be available for entertainment
allowances: Provided further, That of the funds made
available by this Act for the Inter-American Foundation,
not to exceed $2,000 shall be available for entertainment
and representation allowances: Provided further, That of
the funds made available by this Act for the Peace Corps,
not to exceed a total of $4,000 shall be available for enter-
tainment expenses: Provided further, That of the funds
made available by this Act under the heading ‘‘Trade and
Development Agency’’, not to exceed $2,000 shall be avail-
able for representation and entertainment allowances.
PROHIBITION ON FINANCING NUCLEAR GOODS
SEC. 506. None of the funds appropriated or made
available (other than funds for ‘‘Nonproliferation, Anti-
terrorism, Demining and Related Programs’’) pursuant to
this Act, for carrying out the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961, may be used, except for purposes of nuclear safety,
to finance the export of nuclear equipment, fuel, or tech-
nology.
PROHIBITION AGAINST DIRECT FUNDING FOR CERTAIN
COUNTRIES
SEC. 507. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated
or expended to finance directly any assistance or repara-
tions to Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Sudan, or
Syria: Provided, That for purposes of this section, the pro-
hibition on obligations or expenditures shall include direct
loans, credits, insurance and guarantees of the Export-Im-
port Bank or its agents.
MILITARY COUPS
SEC. 508. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated
or expended to finance directly any assistance to any coun-
try whose duly elected head of government is deposed by
military coup or decree: Provided, That assistance may be
resumed to such country if the President determines and
reports to the Committees on Appropriations that subse-
quent to the termination of assistance a democratically
elected government has taken office.
TRANSFERS BETWEEN ACCOUNTS
SEC. 509. None of the funds made available by this
Act may be obligated under an appropriation account to
which they were not appropriated, except for transfers
specifically provided for in this Act, unless the President,
prior to the exercise of any authority contained in the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961 to transfer funds, consults
with and provides a written policy justification to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate.
DEOBLIGATION/REOBLIGATION AUTHORITY
SEC. 510. (a) Amounts certified pursuant to section
1311 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1955, as
having been obligated against appropriations heretofore
made under the authority of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961 for the same general purpose as any of the head-
ings under title II of this Act are, if deobligated, hereby
continued available for the same period as the respective
appropriations under such headings or until September
30, 2000, whichever is later, and for the same general pur-
pose, and for countries within the same region as origi-
nally obligated: Provided, That the Appropriations Com-
mittees of both Houses of the Congress are notified 15
days in advance of the reobligation of such funds in ac-
cordance with regular notification procedures of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations.
(b) Obligated balances of funds appropriated to carry
out section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act as of the
end of the fiscal year immediately preceding the current
fiscal year are, if deobligated, hereby continued available
during the current fiscal year for the same purpose under
any authority applicable to such appropriations under this
Act: Provided, That the authority of this subsection may
not be used in fiscal year 2000.
AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS
SEC. 511. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation after the ex-
piration of the current fiscal year unless expressly so pro-
vided in this Act: Provided, That funds appropriated for
the purposes of chapters 1, 8, and 11 of part I, section
667, and chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961, as amended, and funds provided under the
heading ‘‘Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic
States’’, shall remain available until expended if such
funds are initially obligated before the expiration of their
respective periods of availability contained in this Act:
Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of this Act, any funds made available for the purposes
of chapter 1 of part I and chapter 4 of part II of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 which are allocated or ob-
ligated for cash disbursements in order to address balance
of payments or economic policy reform objectives, shall re-
main available until expended: Provided further, That the
report required by section 653(a) of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 shall designate for each country, to the
extent known at the time of submission of such report,
those funds allocated for cash disbursement for balance
of payment and economic policy reform purposes.
LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES IN DEFAULT
SEC. 512. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall be used to furnish assistance to any country
which is in default during a period in excess of one cal-
endar year in payment to the United States of principal
or interest on any loan made to such country by the
United States pursuant to a program for which funds are
appropriated under this Act: Provided, That this section
and section 620(q) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
shall not apply to funds made available for any narcotics-
related assistance for Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru author-
ized by the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Arms
Export Control Act.
COMMERCE AND TRADE
SEC. 513. (a) None of the funds appropriated or
made available pursuant to this Act for direct assistance
and none of the funds otherwise made available pursuant
to this Act to the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas
Private Investment Corporation shall be obligated or ex-
pended to finance any loan, any assistance or any other
financial commitments for establishing or expanding pro-
duction 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 pro-
ductive 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 Ex-
port-Import Bank if in the judgment of its Board of Direc-
tors 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 com-
modity, 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 intro-
duction, consultancy, publication, 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 pro-
duced in the United States: Provided, That this subsection
shall not prohibit—
(1) activities designed to increase food security
in developing countries where such activities will not
have a significant impact in the export of agricul-
tural commodities of the United States; or
(2) research activities intended primarily to
benefit American producers.
SURPLUS COMMODITIES
SEC. 514. The Secretary of the Treasury shall in-
struct the United States Executive Directors of the Inter-
national Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the
International Development Association, the International
Finance Corporation, the Inter-American Development
Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Devel-
opment Bank, the Inter-American Investment Corpora-
tion, the North American Development Bank, the Euro-
pean Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Afri-
can Development Bank, and the African Development
Fund to use the voice and vote of the United States to
oppose any assistance by these institutions, using funds
appropriated or made available pursuant to this Act, for
the production or extraction of any commodity or mineral
for export, if it is in surplus on world markets and if the
assistance will cause substantial injury to United States
producers of the same, similar, or competing commodity.
NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
SEC. 515. (a) For the purposes of providing the exec-
utive branch with the necessary administrative flexibility,
none of the funds made available under this Act for ‘‘Child
Survival and Disease Programs Fund’’, ‘‘Development As-
sistance’’, ‘‘International Organizations and Programs’’,
‘‘Trade and Development Agency’’, ‘‘International Nar-
cotics Control and Law Enforcement’’, ‘‘Assistance for
Eastern Europe and the Baltic States’’, ‘‘Assistance for
the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union’’,
‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, ‘‘Peacekeeping Operations’’,
‘‘Operating Expenses of the Agency for International De-
velopment’’, ‘‘Operating Expenses of the Agency for Inter-
national Development Office of Inspector General’’, ‘‘Non-
proliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related Pro-
grams’’, ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’, ‘‘Inter-
national Military Education and Training’’, ‘‘Peace
Corps’’, and ‘‘Migration and Refugee Assistance’’, shall be
available for obligation for activities, programs, projects,
type of materiel assistance, countries, or other operations
not justified or in excess of the amount justified to the
Appropriations Committees for obligation under any of
these specific headings unless the Appropriations Commit-
tees of both Houses of Congress are previously notified
15 days in advance: Provided, That the President shall
not enter into any commitment of funds appropriated for
the purposes of section 23 of the Arms Export Control
Act for the provision of major defense equipment, other
than conventional ammunition, or other major defense
items defined to be aircraft, ships, missiles, or combat ve-
hicles, not previously justified to Congress or 20 percent
in excess of the quantities justified to Congress unless the
Committees on Appropriations are notified 15 days in ad-
vance of such commitment: Provided further, That this
section shall not apply to any reprogramming for an activ-
ity, program, or project under chapter 1 of part I of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 of less than 10 percent
of the amount previously justified to the Congress for obli-
gation for such activity, program, or project for the cur-
rent fiscal year: Provided further, That the requirements
of this section or any similar provision of this Act or any
other Act, including any prior Act requiring notification
in accordance with the regular notification procedures of
the Committees on Appropriations, may be waived if fail-
ure to do so would pose a substantial risk to human health
or welfare: Provided further, That in case of any such
waiver, notification to the Congress, or the appropriate
congressional committees, shall be provided as early as
practicable, but in no event later than 3 days after taking
the action to which such notification requirement was ap-
plicable, in the context of the circumstances necessitating
such waiver: Provided further, That any notification pro-
vided pursuant to such a waiver shall contain an expla-
nation of the emergency circumstances.
(b) Drawdowns made pursuant to section 506(a)(2)
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 shall be subject to
the regular notification procedures of the Committees on
Appropriations.
LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMS
SEC. 516. Subject to the regular notification proce-
dures of the Committees on Appropriations, funds appro-
priated under this Act or any previously enacted Act mak-
ing appropriations for foreign operations, export financ-
ing, and related programs, which are returned or not made
available for organizations and programs because of the
implementation of section 307(a) of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961, shall remain available for obligation
until September 30, 2001.
INDEPENDENT STATES OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
SEC. 517. (a) None of the funds appropriated under
the heading ‘‘Assistance for the Independent States of the
Former Soviet Union’’ shall be made available for assist-
ance for a government of an Independent State of the
former Soviet Union—
(1) unless that government is making progress
in implementing comprehensive economic reforms
based on market principles, private ownership, re-
spect for commercial contracts, and equitable treat-
ment of foreign private investment; and
(2) if that government applies or transfers
United States assistance to any entity for the pur-
pose of expropriating or seizing ownership or control
of assets, investments, or ventures.
Assistance may be furnished without regard to this sub-
section if the President determines that to do so is in the
national interest.
(b) None of the funds appropriated under the heading
‘‘Assistance for the Independent States of the Former So-
viet Union’’ shall be made available for assistance for a
government of an Independent State of the former Soviet
Union if that government directs any action in violation
of the territorial integrity or national sovereignty of any
other Independent State of the former Soviet Union, such
as those violations included in the Helsinki Final Act: Pro-
vided, That such funds may be made available without re-
gard to the restriction in this subsection if the President
determines that to do so is in the national security interest
of the United States.
(c) None of the funds appropriated under the heading
‘‘Assistance for the Independent States of the Former So-
viet Union’’ shall be made available for any state to en-
hance its military capability: Provided, That this restric-
tion does not apply to demilitarization, demining or non-
proliferation programs.
(d) Funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Assist-
ance for the Independent States of the Former Soviet
Union’’ shall be subject to the regular notification proce-
dures of the Committees on Appropriations.
(e) Funds made available in this Act for assistance
for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union
shall be subject to the provisions of section 117 (relating
to environment and natural resources) of the Foreign As-
sistance Act of 1961.
(f ) Funds appropriated in this or prior appropria-
tions Acts that are or have been made available for an
Enterprise Fund in the Independent States of the Former
Soviet Union may be deposited by such Fund in interest-
bearing accounts prior to the disbursement of such funds
by the Fund 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 appropriation 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.
(g) In issuing new task orders, entering into con-
tracts, or making grants, with funds appropriated in this
Act or prior appropriations Acts under the headings ‘‘As-
sistance for the New Independent States of the Former
Soviet Union’’ and ‘‘Assistance for the Independent States
of the Former Soviet Union’’, for projects or activities that
have as one of their primary purposes the fostering of pri-
vate sector development, the Coordinator for United
States Assistance to the New Independent States and the
implementing agency shall encourage the participation of
and give significant weight to contractors and grantees
who propose investing a significant amount of their own
resources (including volunteer services and in-kind con-
tributions) in such projects and activities.
PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR ABORTIONS AND
INVOLUNTARY STERILIZATION
SEC. 518. 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 abor-
tions 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 Assist-
ance 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 planning.
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 steri-
lizations: Provided, That none of the funds made available
under this Act may be used to lobby for or against abor-
tion.
EXPORT FINANCING TRANSFER AUTHORITIES
SEC. 519. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropria-
tion other than for administrative expenses made available
for fiscal year 2000, for programs under title I of this
Act may be transferred between such appropriations for
use for any of the purposes, programs, and activities for
which the funds in such receiving account may be used,
but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically
provided, shall be increased by more than 25 percent by
any such transfer: Provided, That the exercise of such au-
thority shall be subject to the regular notification proce-
dures of the Committees on Appropriations.
SPECIAL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
SEC. 520. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
shall be obligated or expended for Colombia, Haiti, Libe-
ria, Pakistan, Panama, Serbia, Sudan, or the Democratic
Republic of Congo except as provided through the regular
notification procedures of the Committees on Appropria-
tions.
DEFINITION OF PROGRAM, PROJECT, AND ACTIVITY
SEC. 521. For the purpose of this Act, ‘‘program,
project, and activity’’ shall be defined at the appropria-
tions Act account level and shall include all appropriations
and authorizations Acts earmarks, ceilings, and limita-
tions with the exception that for the following accounts:
Economic Support Fund and Foreign Military Financing
Program, ‘‘program, project, and activity’’ shall also be
considered to include country, regional, and central pro-
gram level funding within each such account; for the devel-
opment assistance accounts of the Agency for Inter-
national Development ‘‘program, project, and activity’’
shall also be considered to include central program level
funding, either as: (1) justified to the Congress; or (2)
allocated by the executive branch in accordance with a re-
port, 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.
CHILD SURVIVAL AND DISEASE PREVENTION ACTIVITIES
SEC. 522. Up to $10,000,000 of the funds made
available by this Act for assistance under the heading
‘‘Child Survival and Disease Programs Fund’’, may be
used to reimburse United States Government agencies,
agencies of State governments, institutions of higher
learning, and private and voluntary organizations for the
full cost of individuals (including for the personal services
of such individuals) detailed or assigned to, or contracted
by, as the case may be, the Agency for International De-
velopment for the purpose of carrying out child survival,
basic education, and infectious disease activities: Provided,
That up to $1,500,000 of the funds made available by this
Act for assistance under the heading ‘‘Development As-
sistance’’ may be used to reimburse such agencies, institu-
tions, and organizations for such costs of such individuals
carrying out other development assistance activities: Pro-
vided further, That funds appropriated by this Act that
are made available for child survival activities or disease
programs including activities relating to research on, and
the prevention, treatment and control of, Acquired Im-
mune Deficiency Syndrome may be made available not-
withstanding any provision of law that restricts assistance
to foreign countries: Provided further, That funds appro-
priated under title II of this Act may be made available
pursuant to section 301 of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961 if a primary purpose of the assistance is for child
survival and related programs: Provided further, That
funds appropriated by this Act that are made available
for family planning activities may be made available not-
withstanding section 512 of this Act and section 620(q)
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
PROHIBITION AGAINST INDIRECT FUNDING TO CERTAIN
COUNTRIES
SEC. 523. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated
to finance indirectly any assistance or reparations to
Cuba, Iraq, Libya, Iran, Syria, North Korea, or the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China, unless the President of the United
States certifies that the withholding of these funds is con-
trary to the national interest of the United States.
NOTIFICATION ON EXCESS DEFENSE EQUIPMENT
SEC. 524. Prior to providing excess Department of
Defense articles in accordance with section 516(a) of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the Department of De-
fense shall notify the Committees on Appropriations to the
same extent and under the same conditions as are 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 accordance with the regular notification
procedures of such Committees: Provided further, That
such Committees shall also be informed of the original ac-
quisition cost of such defense articles.
AUTHORIZATION REQUIREMENT
SEC. 525. Funds appropriated by this Act may be
obligated and expended notwithstanding section 10 of
Public Law 91–672 and section 15 of the State Depart-
ment Basic Authorities Act of 1956.
DEMOCRACY IN CHINA
SEC. 526. Notwithstanding any other provision of law
that restricts assistance to foreign countries, funds appro-
priated by this Act for ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ may
be made available to provide general support and grants
for nongovernmental organizations located outside the
People’s Republic of China that have as their primary pur-
pose fostering democracy in that country, and for activi-
ties of nongovernmental organizations located outside the
People’s Republic of China to foster democracy in that
country: Provided, That none of the funds made available
for activities to foster democracy in the People’s Republic
of China may be made available for assistance to the gov-
ernment of that country, except that funds appropriated
by this Act under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’
that are made available for the National Endowment for
Democracy or its grantees may be made available for ac-
tivities to foster democracy in that country notwith-
standing this proviso and any other provision of law: Pro-
vided further, That funds made available pursuant to the
authority of this section shall be subject to the regular
notification procedures of the Committees on Appropria-
tions: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other
provision of law that restricts assistance to foreign coun-
tries, of the funds appropriated by this Act under the
heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, $1,000,000 shall be
made available to the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center
for Human Rights for a project to disseminate informa-
tion and support research about the People’s Republic of
China, and related activities.
PROHIBITION ON BILATERAL ASSISTANCE TO TERRORIST
COUNTRIES
SEC. 527. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, funds appropriated for bilateral assistance under
any heading of this Act and funds appropriated under any
such heading in a provision of law enacted prior to the
enactment 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 sub-
section (a) to a country if the President determines that
national security or humanitarian reasons justify such
waiver. The President shall publish each waiver in the
Federal Register and, at least 15 days before the waiver
takes effect, shall notify the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the waiver (including the justification for the waiv-
er) in accordance with the regular notification procedures
of the Committees on Appropriations.
COMMERCIAL LEASING OF DEFENSE ARTICLES
SEC. 528. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, and subject to the regular notification procedures of
the Committees on Appropriations, the authority of sec-
tion 23(a) of the Arms Export Control Act may be used
to provide financing to Israel, Egypt and NATO and
major non-NATO allies for the procurement by leasing
(including leasing with an option to purchase) of defense
articles from United States commercial suppliers, not in-
cluding Major Defense Equipment (other than helicopters
and other types of aircraft having possible civilian applica-
tion), if the President determines that there are compel-
ling foreign policy or national security reasons for those
defense articles being provided by commercial lease rather
than by government-to-government sale under such Act.
COMPETITIVE INSURANCE
SEC. 529. All Agency for International Development
contracts and solicitations, and subcontracts entered into
under such contracts, shall include a clause requiring that
United States insurance companies have a fair oppor-
tunity to bid for insurance when such insurance is nec-
essary or appropriate.
STINGERS IN THE PERSIAN GULF REGION
SEC. 530. Except as provided in section 581 of the
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Pro-
grams Appropriations Act, 1990, the United States may
not sell or otherwise make available any Stingers to any
country bordering the Persian Gulf under the Arms Ex-
port Control Act or chapter 2 of part II of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961.
DEBT-FOR-DEVELOPMENT
SEC. 531. In order to enhance the continued partici-
pation of nongovernmental organizations in economic as-
sistance activities under the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961, including endowments, debt-for-development and
debt-for-nature exchanges, a nongovernmental organiza-
tion which is a grantee or contractor of the Agency for
International Development may place in interest bearing
accounts funds made available under this Act or prior Acts
or local currencies which accrue to that organization as
a result of economic assistance provided under title II of
this Act and any interest earned on such investment shall
be used for the purpose for which the assistance was pro-
vided to that organization.
SEPARATE ACCOUNTS
SEC. 532. (a) SEPARATE ACCOUNTS
FOR LOCAL
CURRENCIES.—(1) If assistance is furnished to the gov-
ernment of a foreign country under chapters 1 and 10 of
part I or chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961 under agreements which result in the genera-
tion of local currencies of that country, the Administrator
of the Agency for International Development shall—
(A) require that local currencies be deposited in
a separate account established by that government;
(B) enter into an agreement with that govern-
ment which sets forth—
(i) the amount of the local currencies to be
generated; and
(ii) the terms and conditions under which
the currencies so deposited may be utilized, con-
sistent with this section; and
(C) establish by agreement with that govern-
ment the responsibilities of the Agency for Inter-
national Development and that government to mon-
itor and account for deposits into and disbursements
from the separate account.
(2) USES
OF LOCAL CURRENCIES.—As may be
agreed upon with the foreign government, local currencies
deposited in a separate account pursuant to subsection
(a), or an equivalent amount of local currencies, shall be
used only—
(A) to carry out chapters 1 or 10 of part I or
chapter 4 of part II (as the case may be), for such
purposes as—
(i) project and sector assistance activities;
or
(ii) debt and deficit financing; or
(B) for the administrative requirements of the
United States Government.
(3) PROGRAMMING ACCOUNTABILITY.—The Agency
for International Development shall take all necessary
steps to ensure that the equivalent of the local currencies
disbursed pursuant to subsection (a)(2)(A) from the sepa-
rate account established pursuant to subsection (a)(1) are
used for the purposes agreed upon pursuant to subsection
(a)(2).
(4) TERMINATION
OF ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.—
Upon termination of assistance to a country under chap-
ters 1 or 10 of part I or chapter 4 of part II (as the case
may be), any unencumbered balances of funds which re-
main in a separate account established pursuant to sub-
section (a) shall be disposed of for such purposes as may
be agreed to by the government of that country and the
United States Government.
(5) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—The Administrator
of the Agency for International Development shall report
on an annual basis as part of the justification documents
submitted to the Committees on Appropriations on the use
of local currencies for the administrative requirements of
the United States Government as authorized in subsection
(a)(2)(B), and such report shall include the amount of
local currency (and United States dollar equivalent) used
and/or to be used for such purpose in each applicable
country.
(b) SEPARATE ACCOUNTS FOR CASH TRANSFERS.—
(1) If assistance is made available to the government of
a foreign country, under chapters 1 or 10 of part I or
chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
as cash transfer assistance or as nonproject sector assist-
ance, that country shall be required to maintain such
funds in a separate account and not commingle them with
any other funds.
(2) APPLICABILITY
OF
OTHER
PROVISIONS
OF
LAW.—Such funds may be obligated and expended not-
withstanding provisions of law which are inconsistent with
the nature of this assistance including provisions which
are referenced in the Joint Explanatory Statement of the
Committee of Conference accompanying House Joint Res-
olution 648 (House Report No. 98–1159).
(3) NOTIFICATION.—At least 15 days prior to obli-
gating any such cash transfer or nonproject sector assist-
ance, the President shall submit a notification through the
regular notification procedures of the Committees on Ap-
propriations, which shall include a detailed description of
how the funds proposed to be made available will be used,
with a discussion of the United States interests that will
be served by the assistance (including, as appropriate, a
description of the economic policy reforms that will be pro-
moted by such assistance).
(4) EXEMPTION.—Nonproject sector assistance funds
may be exempt from the requirements of subsection (b)(1)
only through the notification procedures of the Commit-
tees on Appropriations.
COMPENSATION FOR UNITED STATES EXECUTIVE
DIRECTORS TO INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
SEC. 533. (a) No funds appropriated by this Act may
be made as payment to any international financial institu-
tion while the United States Executive Director to such
institution is compensated by the institution at a rate
which, together with whatever compensation such Director
receives from the United States, is in excess of the rate
provided for an individual occupying a position at level IV
of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of title 5,
United States Code, or while any alternate United States
Director to such institution is compensated by the institu-
tion at a rate in excess of the rate provided for an indi-
vidual occupying a position at level V of the Executive
Schedule under section 5316 of title 5, United States
Code.
(b) For purposes of this section, ‘‘international finan-
cial institutions’’ are: the International Bank for Recon-
struction and Development, the Inter-American Develop-
ment Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Asian De-
velopment Fund, the African Development Bank, the Afri-
can Development Fund, the International Monetary Fund,
the North American Development Bank, and the Euro-
pean Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
COMPLIANCE WITH UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS AGAINST
IRAQ
SEC. 534. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available pursuant to this Act to carry out the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (including title IV of
chapter 2 of part I, relating to the Overseas Private In-
vestment Corporation) or the Arms Export Control Act
may be used to provide assistance to any country that is
not in compliance with the United Nations Security Coun-
cil sanctions against Iraq unless the President determines
and so certifies to the Congress that—
(1) such assistance is in the national interest of
the United States;
(2) such assistance will directly benefit the
needy people in that country; or
(3) the assistance to be provided will be human-
itarian assistance for foreign nationals who have fled
Iraq and Kuwait.
AUTHORITIES FOR THE PEACE CORPS, INTERNATIONAL
FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, INTER-
AMERICAN
FOUNDATION
AND
AFRICAN
DEVELOP-
MENT FOUNDATION
SEC. 535. (a) Unless expressly provided to the con-
trary, provisions of this or any other Act, including provi-
sions contained in prior Acts authorizing or making appro-
priations for foreign operations, export financing, and re-
lated programs, shall not be construed to prohibit activi-
ties authorized by or conducted under the Peace Corps
Act, the Inter-American Foundation Act or the African
Development Foundation Act. The agency shall promptly
report to the Committees on Appropriations whenever it
is conducting activities or is proposing to conduct activi-
ties in a country for which assistance is prohibited.
(b) Unless expressly provided to the contrary, limita-
tions on the availability of funds for ‘‘International Orga-
nizations and Programs’’ in this or any other Act, includ-
ing prior appropriations Acts, shall not be construed to
be applicable to the International Fund for Agricultural
Development.
IMPACT ON JOBS IN THE UNITED STATES
SEC. 536. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
may be obligated or expended to provide—
(a) any financial incentive to a business enter-
prise currently located in the United States for the
purpose of inducing such an enterprise to relocate
outside the United States if such incentive or in-
ducement is likely to reduce the number of employ-
ees of such business enterprise in the United States
because United States production is being replaced
by such enterprise outside the United States;
(b) assistance for the purpose of establishing or
developing in a foreign country any export proc-
essing zone or designated area in which the tax, tar-
iff, labor, environment, and safety laws of that coun-
try do not apply, in part or in whole, to activities
carried out within that zone or area, unless the
President determines and certifies that such assist-
ance is not likely to cause a loss of jobs within the
United States; or
(c) assistance for any project or activity that
contributes to the violation of internationally recog-
nized workers rights, as defined in section 502(a)(4)
of the Trade Act of 1974, of workers in the recipient
country, including any designated zone or area in
that country: Provided, That in recognition that the
application of this subsection should be commensu-
rate with the level of development of the recipient
country and sector, the provisions of this subsection
shall not preclude assistance for the informal sector
in such country, micro and small-scale enterprise,
and smallholder agriculture.
FUNDING PROHIBITION FOR SERBIA
SEC. 537. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
may be made available for assistance for the Republic of
Serbia: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply to
assistance for Kosova or Montenegro, or to assistance to
promote democratization: Provided further, That section
620(t) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended,
shall not apply to Kosova or Montenegro.
SPECIAL AUTHORITIES
SEC. 538. (a) Funds appropriated in titles I and II
of this Act that are made available for Afghanistan, Leb-
anon, Montenegro, and for victims of war, displaced chil-
dren, displaced Burmese, humanitarian assistance for Ro-
mania, and humanitarian assistance for the peoples of
Kosova, may be made available notwithstanding any other
provision of law: Provided, That any such funds that are
made available for Cambodia shall be subject to the provi-
sions of section 531(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961 and section 906 of the International Security and
Development Cooperation Act of 1985.
(b) Funds appropriated by this Act to carry out the
provisions of sections 103 through 106 of the Foreign As-
sistance Act of 1961 may be used, notwithstanding any
other provision of law, for the purpose of supporting trop-
ical forestry and biodiversity conservation activities and,
subject to the regular notification procedures of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations, energy programs aimed at re-
ducing greenhouse gas emissions: Provided, That such as-
sistance shall be subject to sections 116, 502B, and 620A
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
(c) The Agency for International Development may
employ personal services contractors, notwithstanding any
other provision of law, for the purpose of administering
programs for the West Bank and Gaza.
(d)(1) WAIVER.—The President may waive the provi-
sions of section 1003 of Public Law 100–204 if the Presi-
dent determines and certifies in writing to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives and the President pro
tempore of the Senate that it is important to the national
security interests of the United States.
(2) PERIOD
OF APPLICATION
OF WAIVER.—Any
waiver pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be effective for no
more than a period of 6 months at a time and shall not
apply beyond 12 months after the enactment of this Act.
POLICY ON TERMINATING THE ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT
OF ISRAEL
SEC. 539. It is the sense of the Congress that—
(1) the Arab League countries should imme-
diately and publicly renounce the primary boycott of
Israel and the secondary and tertiary boycott of
American firms that have commercial ties with
Israel;
(2) the decision by the Arab League in 1997 to
reinstate the boycott against Israel was deeply trou-
bling and disappointing;
(3) the Arab League should immediately re-
scind its decision on the boycott and its members
should develop normal relations with their neighbor
Israel; and
(4) the President should—
(A) take more concrete steps to encourage
vigorously Arab League countries to renounce
publicly the primary boycotts of Israel and the
secondary and tertiary boycotts of American
firms that have commercial relations with Israel
as a confidence-building measure;
(B) take into consideration the participa-
tion of any recipient country in the primary
boycott of Israel and the secondary and tertiary
boycotts of American firms that have commer-
cial relations with Israel when determining
whether to sell weapons to said country;
(C) report to Congress on the specific
steps being taken by the President to bring
about a public renunciation of the Arab primary
boycott of Israel and the secondary and tertiary
boycotts of American firms that have commer-
cial relations with Israel and to expand the
process of normalizing ties between Arab
League countries and Israel; and
(D) encourage the allies and trading part-
ners of the United States to enact laws prohib-
iting businesses from complying with the boy-
cott and penalizing businesses that do comply.
ANTI-NARCOTICS ACTIVITIES
SEC. 540. Of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this Act for ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’,
assistance may be provided to strengthen the administra-
tion of justice in countries in Latin America and the Car-
ibbean and in other regions consistent with the provisions
of section 534(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
except that programs to enhance protection of participants
in judicial cases may be conducted notwithstanding section
660 of that Act. Funds made available pursuant to this
section may be made available notwithstanding section
534(c) and the second and third sentences of section
534(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
ELIGIBILITY FOR ASSISTANCE
SEC. 541. (a) ASSISTANCE THROUGH NONGOVERN-
MENTAL ORGANIZATIONS.—Restrictions contained in this
or any other Act with respect to assistance for a country
shall not be construed to restrict assistance in support of
programs of nongovernmental organizations from funds
appropriated by this Act to carry out the provisions of
chapters 1, 10, and 11 of part I and chapter 4 of part
II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and from funds
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Assistance for Eastern
Europe and the Baltic States’’: Provided, That the Presi-
dent shall take into consideration, in any case in which
a restriction on assistance would be applicable but for this
subsection, whether assistance in support of programs of
nongovernmental organizations is in the national interest
of the United States: Provided further, That before using
the authority of this subsection to furnish assistance in
support of programs of nongovernmental organizations,
the President shall notify the Committees on Appropria-
tions under the regular notification procedures of those
committees, including a description of the program to be
assisted, the assistance to be provided, and the reasons
for furnishing such assistance: Provided further, That
nothing in this subsection shall be construed to alter any
existing statutory prohibitions against abortion or involun-
tary sterilizations contained in this or any other Act.
(b) PUBLIC LAW 480.—During fiscal year 2000, re-
strictions contained in this or any other Act with respect
to assistance for a country shall not be construed to re-
strict assistance under the Agricultural Trade Develop-
ment and Assistance Act of 1954: Provided, That none
of the funds appropriated to carry out title I of such Act
and made available pursuant to this subsection may be
obligated or expended except as provided through the reg-
ular notification procedures of the Committees on Appro-
priations.
(c) EXCEPTION.—This section shall not apply—
(1) with respect to section 620A of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 or any comparable provision
of law prohibiting assistance to countries that sup-
port international terrorism; or
(2) with respect to section 116 of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 or any comparable provision
of law prohibiting assistance to countries that violate
internationally recognized human rights.
EARMARKS
SEC. 542. (a) Funds appropriated by this Act which
are earmarked may be reprogrammed for other programs
within the same account notwithstanding the earmark if
compliance with the earmark is made impossible by oper-
ation of any provision of this or any other Act or, with
respect to a country with which the United States has an
agreement providing the United States with base rights
or base access in that country, if the President determines
that the recipient for which funds are earmarked has sig-
nificantly reduced its military or economic cooperation
with the United States since the enactment of the Foreign
Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Ap-
propriations Act, 1991; however, before exercising the au-
thority of this subsection with regard to a base rights or
base access country which has significantly reduced its
military or economic cooperation with the United States,
the President shall consult with, and shall provide a writ-
ten policy justification to the Committees on Appropria-
tions: Provided, That any such reprogramming shall be
subject to the regular notification procedures of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations: Provided further, That assist-
ance that is reprogrammed pursuant to this subsection
shall be made available under the same terms and condi-
tions as originally provided.
(b) In addition to the authority contained in sub-
section (a), the original period of availability of funds ap-
propriated by this Act and administered by the Agency
for International Development that are earmarked for par-
ticular programs or activities by this or any other Act shall
be extended for an additional fiscal year if the Adminis-
trator of such agency determines and reports promptly to
the Committees on Appropriations that the termination of
assistance to a country or a significant change in cir-
cumstances makes it unlikely that such earmarked funds
can be obligated during the original period of availability:
Provided, That such earmarked funds that are continued
available for an additional fiscal year shall be obligated
only for the purpose of such earmark.
CEILINGS AND EARMARKS
SEC. 543. Ceilings and earmarks contained in this
Act shall not be applicable to funds or authorities appro-
priated or otherwise made available by any subsequent Act
unless such Act specifically so directs. Earmarks or min-
imum funding requirements contained in any other Act
shall not be applicable to funds appropriated by this Act.
PROHIBITION ON PUBLICITY OR PROPAGANDA
SEC. 544. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes
within the United States not authorized before the date
of the enactment of this Act by the Congress: Provided,
That not to exceed $750,000 may be made available to
carry out the provisions of section 316 of Public Law 96–
533.
PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT AND
PRODUCTS
SEC. 545. (a) To the maximum extent possible, as-
sistance provided under this Act should make full use of
American resources, including commodities, products, and
services.
(b) It is the sense of the Congress that, to the great-
est extent practicable, all agriculture commodities, equip-
ment and products purchased with funds made available
in this Act should be American-made.
(c) In providing financial assistance to, or entering
into any contract with, any entity using funds made avail-
able in this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to the
greatest extent practicable, shall provide to such entity a
notice describing the statement made in subsection (b) by
the Congress.
(d) The Secretary of the Treasury shall report to
Congress annually on the efforts of the heads of each Fed-
eral agency and the United States directors of inter-
national financial institutions (as referenced in section
514) in complying with this sense of the Congress.
PROHIBITION OF PAYMENTS TO UNITED NATIONS
MEMBERS
SEC. 546. None of the funds appropriated or made
available pursuant to this Act for carrying out the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961, may be used to pay in whole or
in part any assessments, arrearages, or dues of any mem-
ber of the United Nations or, from funds appropriated by
this Act to carry out chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961, the costs for participation of an-
other country’s delegation at international conferences
held under the auspices of multilateral or international or-
ganizations.
CONSULTING SERVICES
SEC. 547. The expenditure of any appropriation
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract, pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United
States Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such
expenditures are a matter of public record and available
for public inspection, except where otherwise provided
under existing law, or under existing Executive order pur-
suant to existing law.
PRIVATE VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS—DOCUMENTATION
SEC. 548. None of the funds appropriated or made
available pursuant to this Act shall be available to a pri-
vate voluntary organization which fails to provide upon
timely request any document, file, or record necessary to
the auditing requirements of the Agency for International
Development.
PROHIBITION
ON
ASSISTANCE
TO
FOREIGN
GOVERN-
MENTS
THAT
EXPORT
LETHAL
MILITARY
EQUIP-
MENT TO COUNTRIES SUPPORTING INTERNATIONAL
TERRORISM
SEC. 549. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available by this Act may be available to any
foreign government which provides lethal military equip-
ment to a country the government of which the Secretary
of State has determined is a terrorist government for pur-
poses of section 40(d) of the Arms Export Control Act.
The prohibition under this section with respect to a for-
eign government shall terminate 12 months after that gov-
ernment ceases to provide such military equipment. This
section applies with respect to lethal military 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 furnishing such assistance is
important to the national interests of the United States.
(c) Whenever the waiver of subsection (b) is exer-
cised, the President shall submit to the appropriate con-
gressional committees a report with respect to the fur-
nishing of such assistance. Any such report shall include
a detailed explanation of the assistance to be provided, in-
cluding the estimated dollar amount of such assistance,
and an explanation of how the assistance furthers United
States national interests.
WITHHOLDING OF ASSISTANCE FOR PARKING FINES
OWED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES
SEC. 550. (a) IN GENERAL.—Of the funds made
available for a foreign country under part I of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961, an amount equivalent to 110 per-
cent of the total unpaid fully adjudicated parking fines
and penalties owed to the District of Columbia by such
country as of the date of the enactment of this Act shall
be withheld from obligation for such country until the Sec-
retary of State certifies and reports in writing to the ap-
propriate congressional committees that such fines and
penalties are fully paid to the government of the District
of Columbia.
(b) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the
term ‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’ means the
Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on
Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Inter-
national Relations and the Committee on Appropriations
of the House of Representatives.
LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE FOR THE PLO FOR THE
WEST BANK AND GAZA
SEC. 551. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
may be obligated for assistance for the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization for the West Bank and Gaza unless the
President has exercised the authority under section 604(a)
of the Middle East Peace Facilitation Act of 1995 (title
VI of Public Law 104–107) or any other legislation to sus-
pend or make inapplicable section 307 of the Foreign As-
sistance Act of 1961 and that suspension is still in effect:
Provided, That if the President fails to make the certifi-
cation under section 604(b)(2) of the Middle East Peace
Facilitation Act of 1995 or to suspend the prohibition
under other legislation, funds appropriated by this Act
may not be obligated for assistance for the Palestine Lib-
eration Organization for the West Bank and Gaza.
WAR CRIMES TRIBUNALS DRAWDOWN
SEC. 552. If the President determines that doing so
will contribute to a just resolution of charges regarding
genocide or other violations of international humanitarian
law, the President may direct a drawdown pursuant to sec-
tion 552(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as
amended, of up to $30,000,000 of commodities and serv-
ices for the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal estab-
lished with regard to the former Yugoslavia by the United
Nations Security Council or such other tribunals or com-
missions as the Council may establish to deal with such
violations, without regard to the ceiling limitation con-
tained in paragraph (2) thereof: Provided, That the deter-
mination required under this section shall be in lieu of
any determinations otherwise required under section
552(c): Provided further, That 60 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter,
the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations describing the steps the United
States Government is taking to collect information regard-
ing allegations of genocide or other violations of inter-
national law in the former Yugoslavia and to furnish that
information to the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia: Provided further, That the
drawdown made under this section for any tribunal shall
not be construed as an endorsement or precedent for the
establishment of any standing or permanent international
criminal tribunal or court: Provided further, That funds
made available for tribunals other than Yugoslavia or
Rwanda shall be made available subject to the regular no-
tification procedures of the Committees on Appropria-
tions.
LANDMINES
SEC. 553. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, demining equipment available to the Agency for Inter-
national Development and the Department of State and
used in support of the clearance of landmines and
unexploded ordnance for humanitarian purposes may be
disposed of on a grant basis in foreign countries, subject
to such terms and conditions as the President may pre-
scribe: Provided, That section 1365(c) of the National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 (Public Law
102–484; 22 U.S.C., 2778 note) is amended by striking
‘‘During the five-year period beginning on October 23,
1992’’ and inserting ‘‘During the 11-year period begin-
ning on October 23, 1992’’.
RESTRICTIONS CONCERNING THE PALESTINIAN
AUTHORITY
SEC. 554. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
may be obligated or expended to create in any part of Je-
rusalem a new office of any department or agency of the
United States Government for the purpose of conducting
official United States Government business with the Pal-
estinian Authority over Gaza and Jericho or any successor
Palestinian governing entity provided for in the Israel-
PLO Declaration of Principles: Provided, That this re-
striction shall not apply to the acquisition of additional
space for the existing Consulate General in Jerusalem:
Provided further, That meetings between officers and em-
ployees of the United States and officials of the Pales-
tinian Authority, or any successor Palestinian governing
entity provided for in the Israel-PLO Declaration of Prin-
ciples, for the purpose of conducting official United States
Government business with such authority should continue
to take place in locations other than Jerusalem. As has
been true in the past, officers and employees of the United
States Government may continue to meet in Jerusalem on
other subjects with Palestinians (including those who now
occupy positions in the Palestinian Authority), have social
contacts, and have incidental discussions.
PROHIBITION OF PAYMENT OF CERTAIN EXPENSES
SEC. 555. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act under the headings ‘‘Inter-
national Military Education and Training’’ or ‘‘Foreign
Military Financing Program’’ for Informational Program
activities or under the headings ‘‘Child Survival and Dis-
ease Programs Fund’’, ‘‘Development Assistance’’, and
‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ may be obligated or expended
to pay for—
(1) alcoholic beverages; or
(2) entertainment expenses for activities that
are substantially of a recreational character, includ-
ing entrance fees at sporting events and amusement
parks.
COMPETITIVE PRICING FOR SALES OF DEFENSE
ARTICLES
SEC. 556. Direct costs associated with meeting a for-
eign customer’s additional or unique requirements will
continue to be allowable under contracts under section
22(d) of the Arms Export Control Act. Loadings applica-
ble to such direct costs shall be permitted at the same
rates applicable to procurement of like items purchased
by the Department of Defense for its own use.
SPECIAL DEBT RELIEF FOR THE POOREST
SEC. 557. (a) AUTHORITY TO REDUCE DEBT.—The
President may reduce amounts owed to the United States
(or any agency of the United States) by an eligible country
as a result of—
(1) guarantees issued under sections 221 and
222 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961;
(2) credits extended or guarantees issued under
the Arms Export Control Act; or
(3) any obligation or portion of such obligation,
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 Com-
modity 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).
(b) LIMITATIONS.—
(1) The authority provided by subsection (a)
may be exercised only to implement multilateral offi-
cial debt relief and referendum agreements, com-
monly referred to as ‘‘Paris Club Agreed Minutes’’.
(2) The authority provided by subsection (a)
may be exercised only in such amounts or to such
extent as is provided in advance by appropriations
Acts.
(3) The authority provided by subsection (a)
may be exercised only with respect to countries with
heavy debt burdens that are eligible to borrow from
the International Development Association, but not
from the International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development, commonly referred to as ‘‘IDA-only’’
countries.
(c) CONDITIONS.—The authority provided by sub-
section (a) may be exercised only with respect to a country
whose government—
(1) does not have an excessive level of military
expenditures;
(2) has not repeatedly provided support for acts
of international terrorism;
(3) is not failing to cooperate on international
narcotics control matters;
(4) (including its military or other security
forces) does not engage in a consistent pattern of
gross violations of internationally recognized human
rights; and
(5) is not ineligible for assistance because of the
application of section 527 of the Foreign Relations
Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995.
(d) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—The authority pro-
vided by subsection (a) may be used only with regard to
funds appropriated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Debt
Restructuring’’.
(e) CERTAIN PROHIBITIONS INAPPLICABLE.—A re-
duction of debt pursuant to subsection (a) shall not be
considered assistance for purposes of any provision of law
limiting assistance to a country. The authority provided
by subsection (a) may be exercised notwithstanding sec-
tion 620(r) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or sec-
tion 321 of the International Development and Food As-
sistance Act of 1975.
AUTHORITY TO ENGAGE IN DEBT BUYBACKS OR SALES
SEC. 558. (a) LOANS ELIGIBLE FOR SALE, REDUC-
TION, OR CANCELLATION.—
(1) AUTHORITY TO SELL, REDUCE, OR CANCEL
CERTAIN LOANS.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the President may, in accordance with
this section, sell to any eligible purchaser any
concessional loan or portion thereof made before
January 1, 1995, pursuant to the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961, to the government of any eligible
country as defined in section 702(6) of that Act or
on receipt of payment from an eligible purchaser, re-
duce or cancel such loan or portion thereof, only for
the purpose of facilitating—
(A) debt-for-equity swaps, debt-for-develop-
ment swaps, or debt-for-nature swaps; or
(B) a debt buyback by an eligible country
of its own qualified debt, only if the eligible
country uses an additional amount of the local
currency of the eligible country, equal to not
less than 40 percent of the price paid for such
debt by such eligible country, or the difference
between the price paid for such debt and the
face value of such debt, to support activities
that link conservation and sustainable use of
natural resources with local community develop-
ment, and child survival and other child devel-
opment, in a manner consistent with sections
707 through 710 of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961, if the sale, reduction, or cancellation
would not contravene any term or condition of
any prior agreement relating to such loan.
(2) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—Notwithstanding
any other provision of law, the President shall, in ac-
cordance with this section, establish the terms and
conditions under which loans may be sold, reduced,
or canceled pursuant to this section.
(3) ADMINISTRATION.—The Facility, as defined
in section 702(8) of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961, shall notify the administrator of the agency
primarily responsible for administering part I of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 of purchasers that
the President has determined to be eligible, and
shall direct such agency to carry out the sale, reduc-
tion, or cancellation of a loan pursuant to this sec-
tion. Such agency shall make an adjustment in its
accounts to reflect the sale, reduction, or cancella-
tion.
(4) LIMITATION.—The authorities of this sub-
section shall be available only to the extent that ap-
propriations for the cost of the modification, as de-
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974, are made in advance.
(b) DEPOSIT OF PROCEEDS.—The proceeds from the
sale, reduction, or cancellation of any loan sold, reduced,
or canceled pursuant to this section shall be deposited in
the United States Government account or accounts estab-
lished for the repayment of such loan.
(c) ELIGIBLE PURCHASERS.—A loan may be sold
pursuant to subsection (a)(1)(A) only to a purchaser who
presents plans satisfactory to the President for using the
loan for the purpose of engaging in debt-for-equity swaps,
debt-for-development swaps, or debt-for-nature swaps.
(d) DEBTOR CONSULTATIONS.—Before the sale to
any eligible purchaser, or any reduction or cancellation
pursuant to this section, of any loan made to an eligible
country, the President should consult with the country
concerning the amount of loans to be sold, reduced, or
canceled and their uses for debt-for-equity swaps, debt-
for-development swaps, or debt-for-nature swaps.
(e) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—The authority pro-
vided by subsection (a) may be used only with regard to
funds appropriated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Debt
Restructuring’’.
ASSISTANCE FOR HAITI
SEC. 559. (a) POLICY.—In providing assistance to
Haiti, the President should place a priority on the fol-
lowing areas:
(1) aggressive action to support the Haitian
National Police, including support for efforts by the
Inspector General to purge corrupt and politicized
elements from the Haitian National Police;
(2) steps to ensure that any elections under-
taken in Haiti with United States assistance are full,
free, fair, transparent, and democratic;
(3) support for a program designed to develop
an indigenous human rights monitoring capacity;
(4) steps to facilitate the continued privatiza-
tion of state-owned enterprises;
(5) a sustainable agricultural development pro-
gram; and
(6) establishment of an economic development
fund for Haiti to provide long-term, low interest
loans to United States investors and businesses that
have a demonstrated commitment to, and expertise
in, doing business in Haiti, in particular those busi-
nesses present in Haiti prior to the 1994 United Na-
tions embargo.
(b) REPORT.—Beginning 6 months after the date of
the enactment of this Act, and 6 months thereafter until
September 30, 2001, the President shall submit a report
to the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee
on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee
on Appropriations and the Committee on International
Relations of the House of Representatives with regard
to—
(1) the status of each of the governmental insti-
tutions envisioned in the 1987 Haitian Constitution,
including an assessment of the extent to which offi-
cials in such institutions hold their positions on the
basis of a regular, constitutional process;
(2) the status of the privatization (or placement
under long-term private management or concession)
of the major public entities, including a detailed as-
sessment of the extent to which the Government of
Haiti has completed all required incorporating docu-
ments, the transfer of assets, and the eviction of un-
authorized occupants from such facilities;
(3) the status of efforts to re-sign and imple-
ment the lapsed bilateral Repatriation Agreement
and an assessment of the extent to which the Gov-
ernment of Haiti has been cooperating with the
United States in halting illegal emigration from
Haiti;
(4) the status of the Government of Haiti’s ef-
forts 
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conduct 
thorough 
investigations 
of
extrajudicial and political killings and—
(A) an assessment of the progress that has
been made in bringing to justice the persons re-
sponsible for these extrajudicial or political
killings in Haiti; and
(B) an assessment of the extent to which
the Government of Haiti is cooperating with
United States authorities and with United
States-funded technical advisors to the Haitian
National Police in such investigations;
(5) an assessment of actions taken by the Gov-
ernment of Haiti to remove and maintain the sepa-
ration from the Haitian National Police, national
palace and residential guard, ministerial guard, and
any other public security entity or unit of Haiti
those individuals who are credibly alleged to have en-
gaged in or conspired to conceal gross violations of
internationally recognized human rights;
(6) the status of steps being taken to secure the
ratification of the maritime counter-narcotics agree-
ments signed October 1997;
(7) an assessment of the extent to which do-
mestic capacity to conduct free, fair, democratic, and
administratively sound elections has been developed
in Haiti; and
(8) an assessment of the extent to which Haiti’s
Minister of Justice has demonstrated a commitment
to the professionalism of judicial personnel by con-
sistently placing students graduated by the Judicial
School in appropriate judicial positions and has
made a commitment to share program costs associ-
ated with the Judicial School, and is achieving
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and a nonsanctioned contiguous country, entity,
or municipality, if the project is primarily lo-
cated in and primarily benefits the nonsanc-
tioned country, entity, or municipality and if
the portion of the project located in the sanc-
tioned country, entity, or municipality is nec-
essary only to complete the project;
(D) small-scale assistance projects or ac-
tivities requested by United States Armed
Forces that promote good relations between
such forces and the officials and citizens of the
areas in the United States SFOR sector of Bos-
nia;
(E) implementation of the Brcko Arbitral
Decision;
(F) lending by the international financial
institutions to a country or entity to support
common monetary and fiscal policies at the na-
tional level as contemplated by the Dayton
Agreement;
(G) direct lending to a non-sanctioned enti-
ty, or lending passed on by the national govern-
ment to a non-sanctioned entity; or