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of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2405(j)(1)), supports inter-
national terrorism. 
PARKING FINES AND REAL PROPERTY TAXES OWED BY 
FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS 
SEC. 7055. (a) Subject to subsection (c), of the funds 
appropriated under titles III through VI by this Act that 
are made available for assistance for a foreign country, 
an amount equal to 110 percent of the total amount of 
the unpaid fully adjudicated parking fines and penalties 
and unpaid property taxes owed by the central government 
of such country shall be withheld from obligation for as-
sistance for the central government of such country until 
the Secretary of State submits a certification to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations stating that such parking fines 
and penalties and unpaid property taxes are fully paid. 
(b) Funds withheld from obligation pursuant to sub-
section (a) may be made available for other programs or 
activities funded by this Act, after consultation with and 
subject to the regular notification procedures of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations, provided that no such funds 
shall be made available for assistance for the central gov-
ernment of a foreign country that has not paid the total 
amount of the fully adjudicated parking fines and pen-
alties and unpaid property taxes owed by such country. 
(c) Subsection (a) shall not include amounts that 
have been withheld under any other provision of law. 
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(d)(1) The Secretary of State may waive the require-
ments set forth in subsection (a) with respect to parking 
fines and penalties no sooner than 60 days from the date 
of enactment of this Act, or at any time with respect to 
a particular country, if the Secretary determines that it 
is in the national interests of the United States to do so. 
(2) The Secretary of State may waive the require-
ments set forth in subsection (a) with respect to the un-
paid property taxes if the Secretary of State determines 
that it is in the national interests of the United States 
to do so. 
(e) Not later than 6 months after the initial exercise 
of the waiver authority in subsection (d), the Secretary 
of State, after consultations with the City of New York, 
shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations 
describing a strategy, including a timetable and steps cur-
rently being taken, to collect the parking fines and pen-
alties and unpaid property taxes and interest owed by na-
tions receiving foreign assistance under this Act. 
(f) In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘fully adjudicated’’ includes cir-
cumstances in which the person to whom the vehicle 
is registered— 
(A)(i) has not responded to the parking 
violation summons; or 
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(ii) has not followed the appropriate adju-
dication procedure to challenge the summons; 
and 
(B) the period of time for payment of or 
challenge to the summons has lapsed. 
(2) The term ‘‘parking fines and penalties’’ 
means parking fines and penalties— 
(A) owed to— 
(i) the District of Columbia; or 
(ii) New York, New York; and 
(B) incurred during the period April 1, 
1997, through September 30, 2008. 
(3) The term ‘‘unpaid property taxes’’ means 
the amount of unpaid taxes and interest determined 
to be owed by a foreign country on real property in 
the District of Columbia or New York, New York in 
a court order or judgment entered against such 
country by a court of the United States or any State 
or subdivision thereof. 
LANDMINES AND CLUSTER MUNITIONS 
SEC. 7056. (a) LANDMINES.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, demining equipment available to 
the United States Agency for International Development 
and the Department of State and used in support of the 
clearance of landmines and unexploded ordnance for hu-
manitarian purposes may be disposed of on a grant basis 
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in foreign countries, subject to such terms and conditions 
as the President may prescribe. 
(b) CLUSTER MUNITIONS.—No military assistance 
shall be furnished for cluster munitions, no defense export 
license for cluster munitions may be issued, and no cluster 
munitions or cluster munitions technology shall be sold or 
transferred, unless— 
(1) the submunitions of the cluster munitions 
have a 99 percent or higher functioning rate; and 
(2) the agreement applicable to the assistance, 
transfer, or sale of the cluster munitions or cluster 
munitions technology specifies that the cluster muni-
tions will only be used against clearly defined mili-
tary targets and will not be used where civilians are 
known to be present. 
MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION 
SEC. 7057. (a) The Chief Executive Officer of the 
Millennium Challenge Corporation shall, not later than 45 
days after enactment of this Act, submit to the Committee 
on Appropriations a report on the proposed uses, on a 
country-by-country basis, of all funds appropriated under 
the heading ‘‘Millennium Challenge Corporation’’ in this 
Act or prior Acts making appropriations for the Depart-
ment of State, foreign operations, and related programs 
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