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for obligation only pursuant to the regular notification 
procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided 
further, That funds appropriated under this heading and 
under the heading ‘‘Operating Expenses of the United 
States Agency for International Development’’ may be 
made available for USAID’s contribution to the Capital 
Cost Sharing Program only if all other agencies who have 
agreed to participate in that program during the current 
fiscal year are making their contributions to the program. 
OPERATING EXPENSES OF THE UNITED STATES AGENCY 
FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICE OF IN-
SPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 
of section 667 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
$35,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2006, which sum shall be available for the Office of the 
Inspector General of the United States 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, $2,450,000,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2006: Provided, That of the 
funds appropriated under this heading, not less than 
$360,000,000 shall be available only for Israel, which sum 
shall be available on a grant basis as a cash transfer and
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shall be disbursed within 30 days of the enactment of this 
Act or by October 31, 2004, whichever is later: Provided 
further, That not less than $535,000,000 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: Pro-
vided further, That in exercising the authority to provide 
cash transfer assistance for Israel, the President shall en-
sure 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 in an amount propor-
tional to the fiscal year 1999 agreement: Provided further, 
That of the funds appropriated under this heading, not 
less than $250,000,000 should be made available only for 
assistance for Jordan: Provided further, That not to exceed 
$200,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this head-
ing may be used for the costs, as defined in section 502 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of modifying 
direct loans and guarantees for Pakistan: Provided further, 
That amounts that are made available under the previous 
proviso for the cost of modifying direct loans and guaran-
tees shall not be considered ‘‘assistance’’ for the purposes
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of provisions of law limiting assistance to a country: Pro-
vided further, That $13,500,000 of the funds appropriated 
under this heading should be made available for Cyprus 
to be used only for scholarships, administrative support 
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: Provided further, 
That $35,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this 
heading should be made available for assistance for Leb-
anon, of which not less than $4,000,000 should be made 
available for scholarships and direct support of American 
educational institutions in Lebanon: Provided further, 
That funds appropriated under this heading that are made 
available for assistance for the Central Government of 
Lebanon shall be subject to the regular notification proce-
dures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided fur-
ther, That $22,000,000 of the funds appropriated under 
this heading should be made available for assistance for 
the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste: Provided further, 
That $50,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this 
heading should be made available for assistance for Haiti: 
Provided further, That funds appropriated under this 
heading may be used, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, to provide assistance to the National Democratic
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Alliance of Sudan to strengthen its ability to protect civil-
ians from attacks, slave raids, and aerial bombardment 
by the Sudanese Government forces and its militia allies, 
and the provision of such funds shall be subject to the 
regular notification procedures of the Committees on Ap-
propriations: Provided further, That in the previous pro-
viso, the term ‘‘assistance’’ includes non-lethal, non-food 
aid such as blankets, medicine, fuel, mobile clinics, water 
drilling equipment, communications equipment to notify 
civilians of aerial bombardment, non-military vehicles, 
tents, and shoes: Provided further, That funds appro-
priated under this heading that are made available for a 
Middle East Financing Facility, Middle East Enterprise 
Fund, or any other similar entity in the Middle East shall 
be subject to the regular notification procedures of the 
Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That 
with respect to funds appropriated under this heading in 
this Act or prior Acts making appropriations for foreign 
operations, export financing, and related programs, the re-
sponsibility for policy decisions and justifications for the 
use of such funds, including whether there will be a pro-
gram for a country that uses those funds and the amount 
of each such program, shall be the responsibility of the 
Secretary of State and the Deputy Secretary of State and 
this responsibility shall not be delegated.
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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, $18,500,000, 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, 2006. 
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, 
$375,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2006, which shall be available, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, for assistance and for related programs 
for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States. 
(b) 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.