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untary organization or for-profit entity, and shall not in-
clude entities owned in whole or in part by a government 
or governmental entity. 
(g) REPORT.—Within 90 days from the date of enact-
ment of this Act, and after consultation with the Commit-
tees on Appropriations, the Administrator of USAID shall 
submit a report to those Committees describing the proce-
dures and mechanisms USAID will use to implement this 
section. 
MONITORING OF MILITARY ASSISTANCE 
SEC. 671. Not later than 90 days after enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to 
the Committees on Appropriations detailing the procedures 
being applied, on a country-by-country basis, to monitor 
whether funds appropriated by this Act under the heading 
‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’ for assistance for 
Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, 
Pakistan, Philippines, and Sri Lanka, are misused by 
units of the security forces of such countries against civil-
ians, including civilians who are members of political oppo-
sition parties and human rights groups. 
DISASTER ASSISTANCE AND RECOVERY 
SEC. 672. (a) Funds made available to the Comptroller 
General under chapter 4 of title I of the Emergency Supple-
mental Appropriations Act (Public Law 106–31; 113 Stat. 
69) and section 593 of the Foreign Operations, Export Fi-
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nancing, and Programs Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 
(Public Law 106–429; 114 Stat. 1900A–59) to monitor the 
provisions of assistance to address the effects of hurricanes 
in Central America and the Caribbean and the earthquake 
in Colombia, and to monitor the earthquake relief and re-
construction efforts in El Salvador under section 561 of the 
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Programs 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 (Public Law 107–115; 
115 Stat. 2162) shall also be available to the Comptroller 
General to monitor any other disaster assistance and recov-
ery effort. 
(b) This section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 
2008 and each year thereafter. 
UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 
DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 673. (a) AUTHORITY.—Up to $81,000,000 of the 
funds made available in this Act to carry out the provisions 
of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, including 
funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Assistance for East-
ern Europe and the Baltic States’’, may be used by the 
United States Agency for International Development 
(USAID) to hire and employ individuals in the United 
States and overseas on a limited appointment basis pursu-
ant to the authority of sections 308 and 309 of the Foreign 
Service Act of 1980. 
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(b) RESTRICTIONS.— 
(1) The number of individuals hired in any fis-
cal year pursuant to the authority contained in sub-
section (a) may not exceed 175. 
(2) The authority to hire individuals contained 
in subsection (a) shall expire on September 30, 2009. 
(c) CONDITIONS.—The authority of subsection (a) may 
only be used to the extent that an equivalent number of posi-
tions that are filled by personal services contractors or other 
nondirect-hire employees of USAID, who are compensated 
with funds appropriated to carry out part I of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961, including funds appropriated under 
the heading ‘‘Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic 
States’’, are eliminated. 
(d) PRIORITY SECTORS.—In exercising the authority 
of this section, primary emphasis shall be placed on ena-
bling USAID to meet personnel positions in technical skill 
areas currently encumbered by contractor or other non-
direct-hire personnel. 
(e) CONSULTATIONS.—The USAID Administrator 
shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations at 
least on a quarterly basis concerning the implementation 
of this section. 
(f) PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
CHARGED.—The account 
charged for the cost of an individual hired and employed 
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under the authority of this section shall be the account to 
which such individual’s responsibilities primarily relate. 
Funds made available to carry out this section may be 
transferred to and merged and consolidated with funds ap-
propriated for ‘‘Operating Expenses of the United States 
Agency for International Development’’. 
(g) MANAGEMENT REFORM PILOT.—Of the funds made 
available in subsection (a), USAID may use, in addition 
to funds otherwise available for such purposes, up to 
$15,000,000 to fund overseas support costs of members of 
the Foreign Service with a Foreign Service rank of four 
or below: Provided, That such authority is only used to re-
duce USAID’s reliance on overseas personal services con-
tractors or other nondirect-hire employees compensated with 
funds appropriated to carry out part I of the Foreign As-
sistance Act of 1961, including funds appropriated under 
the heading ‘‘Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic 
States’’. 
(h) DISASTER
SURGE
CAPACITY.—Funds appro-
priated by this Act to carry out part I of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961, including funds appropriated under the 
heading ‘‘Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic 
States’’, may be used, in addition to funds otherwise avail-
able for such purposes, for the cost (including the support 
costs) of individuals detailed to or employed by the United 
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States Agency for International Development whose pri-
mary responsibility is to carry out programs in response 
to natural disasters. 
OPIC TRANSFER AUTHORITY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 674. Whenever the President determines that it 
is in furtherance of the purposes of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961, up to a total of $20,000,000 of the funds appro-
priated under title II of this Act may be transferred to and 
merged with funds appropriated by this Act for the Over-
seas Private Investment Corporation Program Account, to 
be subject to the terms and conditions of that account: Pro-
vided, That such funds shall not be available for adminis-
trative expenses of the Overseas Private Investment Cor-
poration: Provided further, That funds earmarked by this 
Act shall not be transferred pursuant to this section: Pro-
vided further, That the exercise of such authority shall be 
subject to the regular notification procedures of the Commit-
tees on Appropriations. 
REPORTING REQUIREMENT 
SEC. 675. The Secretary of State shall provide the 
Committees on Appropriations, not later than April 1, 
2008, and for each fiscal quarter, a report in writing on 
the uses of funds made available under the headings ‘‘For-
eign Military Financing Program’’, ‘‘International Mili-
tary Education and Training’’, and ‘‘Peacekeeping Oper-
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ations’’: Provided, That such report shall include a descrip-
tion of the obligation and expenditure of funds, and the spe-
cific country in receipt of, and the use or purpose of the 
assistance provided by such funds. 
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY CONSERVATION PROGRAMS 
SEC. 676. (a) BIODIVERSITY.—Of the funds appro-
priated under the heading ‘‘Development Assistance’’, not 
less than $195,000,000 shall be made available for programs 
and activities which directly protect biodiversity, including 
forests, in developing countries, of which not less than the 
amount of funds initially allocated pursuant to section 
653(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for fiscal year 
2006 shall be made available for such activities in Brazil, 
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, and that in addition 
to such amounts for such countries not less than 
$15,000,000 shall be made available for the United States 
Agency for International Development’s Amazon Basin 
Conservation Initiative: Provided, That of the funds appro-
priated by this Act, not less than $2,000,000 should be made 
available for wildlife conservation and protected area man-
agement in the Boma-Jonglei landscape of Southern Sudan, 
and not less than $17,500,000 shall be made available for 
the Congo Basin Forest Partnership of which not less than 
$2,500,000 shall be made available to the United States 
Fish and Wildlife Service for wildlife conservation pro-
grams in Central Africa. 
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(b) ENERGY.— 
(1) Of the funds appropriated by this Act, not 
less than $195,000,000 shall be made available to sup-
port clean energy and other climate change programs 
in developing countries, of which not less than 
$125,000,000 should be made available to directly 
promote and deploy energy conservation, energy effi-
ciency, and renewable and clean energy technologies 
with an emphasis on small hydro, solar and wind en-
ergy, and of which the balance should be made avail-
able to directly: (1) reduce greenhouse gas emissions; 
(2) increase carbon sequestration activities; and (3) 
support climate change mitigation and adaptation 
programs. 
(2) The Secretary of State shall convene an 
interagency committee, including appropriate offi-
cials of the Department of State, the United States 
Agency for International Development, and the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency, to evaluate the specific 
needs of developing countries in adapting to climate 
change impacts: Provided, That the Secretary shall 
submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations 
not later than September 1, 2008, describing such 
needs, on a country-by-country and regional basis, 
and the actions planned and being taken by the 
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United States, including funding provided to devel-
oping countries specifically for adaptation to climate 
change impacts. 
(c) EXTRACTION OF NATURAL RESOURCES.— 
(1) The Secretary of the Treasury shall inform 
the managements of the international financial insti-
tutions and the public that it is the policy of the 
United States that any assistance by such institutions 
(including but not limited to any loan, credit, grant, 
or guarantee) for the extraction and export of oil, gas, 
coal, timber, or other natural resource should not be 
provided unless the government of the country has in 
place functioning systems for: (A) accurately account-
ing for revenues and expenditures in connection with 
the extraction and export of the type of natural re-
source to be extracted or exported; (B) the inde-
pendent auditing of such accounts and the widespread 
public dissemination of the audits; and (C) verifying 
government receipts against company payments in-
cluding widespread dissemination of such payment 
information, and disclosing such documents as Host 
Government Agreements, Concession Agreements, and 
bidding documents, allowing in any such dissemina-
tion or disclosure for the redaction of, or exceptions 
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for, information that is commercially proprietary or 
that would create competitive disadvantage. 
(2) Not later than 180 days after the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit 
a report to the Committees on Appropriations describ-
ing, for each international financial institution, the 
amount and type of assistance provided, by country, 
for the extraction and export of oil, gas, coal, timber, 
or other national resource since September 30, 2007, 
and whether each institution considered, in its pro-
posal for such assistance, the extent to which the 
country has functioning systems described in para-
graph (c)(1). 
(d) Funds appropriated under titles II, III and IV of 
this Act shall to the maximum extent practicable, be subject 
to the provisions of section 117 (relating to environment 
and natural resources) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961. 
UZBEKISTAN 
SEC. 677. (a) LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE.—Funds 
appropriated by this Act may be made available for assist-
ance for the central Government of Uzbekistan only if the 
Secretary of State determines and reports to the Committees 
on Appropriations that— 
(1) the Government of Uzbekistan is making sub-
stantial and continuing progress in meeting its com-
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mitments under the ‘‘Declaration on the Strategic 
Partnership and Cooperation Framework Between the 
Republic of Uzbekistan and the United States of 
America’’, including respect for human rights, estab-
lishing a genuine multi-party system, and ensuring 
free and fair elections, freedom of expression, and the 
independence of the media; and 
(2) a credible international investigation of the 
May 13, 2005, shootings in Andijan is underway 
with the support of the Government of Uzbekistan. 
(b) SANCTIONS.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall send 
to the appropriate congressional committees a list of offi-
cials of the Government of Uzbekistan and their immediate 
family members who the Secretary has credible evidence to 
believe have been involved in the Andijan massacre or in 
other gross violations of human rights in Uzbekistan; 
(c) IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.—Not later than 10 
days after the list described in subsection (b) is submitted 
to the appropriate congressional committees, the following 
sanctions shall apply: 
(1) Any individual on the list submitted under 
subsection (b) shall be ineligible for a visa to enter the 
United States. 
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(2) No property or interest in property belonging 
to an individual on the list submitted under sub-
section (b), or to a member of the immediate family 
of such individual if the property is effectively under 
the control of such individual, may be transferred, 
paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt with, if 
the property is within the United States or within the 
possession or control of a United States person, in-
cluding the overseas branch of such person, or after 
the date of the enactment of this Act comes within the 
control of such person. 
(3) No United States person may engage in fi-
nancial transactions with an individual on the list 
submitted under subsection (b), or with a member of 
the immediate family of such individual if the trans-
action will benefit an individual on the list submitted 
under subsection (b). 
(c) FREEZING OF ASSETS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treasury 
shall immediately block any assets, property, trans-
actions in foreign exchange, currency, or securities, 
and transfers of credit or payments between, by, 
through, or to any banking institution under the ju-
risdiction of the United States of an individual iden-
tified under subsection (b) of this section. 
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(2) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 
15 days after a decision to freeze the assets identified 
in this subsection of any individual identified under 
subsection (b), the Secretary of the Treasury shall— 
(A) report the name of such individual to 
the Committees on Appropriations; and 
(B) require any United States financial in-
stitution holding such funds or assets to prompt-
ly report those funds and assets to the Office of 
Foreign Assets Control. 
CENTRAL ASIA 
SEC. 678. (a) Funds appropriated by this Act may 
be made available for assistance for the Government of 
Kazakhstan only if the Secretary of State determines and 
reports to the Committees on Appropriations that the Gov-
ernment of Kazakhstan has made significant improvements 
in the protection of human rights during the preceding 6 
month period. 
(b) The Secretary of State may waive subsection (a) 
if the Secretary determines and reports to the Committees 
on Appropriations that such a waiver is important to the 
national security of the United States. 
(c) Not later than October 1, 2008, the Secretary of 
State shall submit a report to the Committees on Appro-
priations and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
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Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House 
of Representatives describing the following: 
(1) The defense articles, defense services, and fi-
nancial assistance provided by the United States to 
the countries of Central Asia during the 12-month pe-
riod ending 30 days prior to submission of such re-
port. 
(2) The use during such period of defense arti-
cles, defense services, and financial assistance pro-
vided by the United States by units of the armed 
forces, border guards, or other security forces of such 
countries. 
(d) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘countries 
of Central Asia’’ means Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz 
Republic, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. 
DISABILITY PROGRAMS 
SEC. 679. (a) Of the funds appropriated by this Act 
under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, not less than 
$4,000,000 shall be made available for programs and activi-
ties administered by the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development (USAID) to address the needs and 
protect the rights of people with disabilities in developing 
countries, of which $1,500,000 should be made available to 
disability advocacy organizations that have expertise in 
working to protect the rights and increasing the independ-
ence and full participation of people with disabilities: Pro-
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vided, That funds for disability advocacy organizations 
should be used for training and technical assistance for for-
eign disabled persons organizations in such areas as advo-
cacy, education, independent living, and transportation, 
with the goal of promoting equal participation of people 
with disabilities in developing countries: Provided further, 
That USAID should seek to disburse at lease 25 percent of 
the funds made available pursuant to this subsection in the 
form of small grants. 
(b) Funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Operating 
Expenses of the United States Agency for International De-
velopment’’ shall be made available to develop and imple-
ment training for staff in overseas USAID missions to pro-
mote the full inclusion and equal participation of people 
with disabilities in developing countries. 
(c) The Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treas-
ury, and the Administrator of USAID shall seek to ensure 
that, where appropriate, construction projects funded by 
this Act are accessible to people with disabilities and in 
compliance with the USAID Policy on Standards for Acces-
sibility for the Disabled, or other similar accessibility 
standards. 
(d) Of the funds made available pursuant to subsection 
(a), not more than 7 percent may be for management, over-
sight and technical support. 
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(e) Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, and 180 days thereafter, the Administrator of 
USAID shall submit a report describing the programs, ac-
tivities, and organizations funded pursuant to this section. 
NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES 
SEC. 680. Of the funds appropriated under the heading 
‘‘Global Health Programs’’, not less than $15,000,000 shall 
be made available for continued support of the United 
States Agency for International Development’s cooperative 
agreement to implement an integrated response to the con-
trol of neglected diseases including intestinal parasites, 
schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, tra-
choma and leprosy: Provided, That the Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development shall 
work with relevant technical organizations addressing the 
specific diseases, recipient countries, donor countries, the 
private sector, UNICEF and the World Health Organiza-
tion to develop a multilateral, integrated initiative to con-
trol these diseases that will enhance coordination and effec-
tiveness and maximize the leverage of United States con-
tributions with those of other donors: Provided further, That 
funds made available pursuant to this section shall be sub-
ject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees 
on Appropriations. 
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