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United States derived by the collection of fees or of currency 
reflows or other offsetting collections, or made available by 
transfer, to the agencies and departments funded by this 
Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure through 
a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates new programs; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases 
funds or personnel by any means for any project or activity 
for which funds have been denied or restricted; (4) relocates 
an office or employees; (5) closes or opens a mission or post; 
(6) reorganizes or renames offices; (7) reorganizes programs 
or activities; or (8) contracts out or privatizes any functions 
or activities presently performed by Federal employees; un-
less the Committees on Appropriations are notified 15 days 
in advance of such reprogramming of funds. 
(b) For the purposes of providing the executive branch 
with the necessary administrative flexibility, none of the 
funds provided under title I of this Act, or provided under 
previous appropriations Acts to the agencies or department 
funded under title I of this Act that remain available for 
obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2008, or provided 
from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States 
derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies or 
department funded by title I of this Act, shall be available 
for obligation or expenditure for activities, programs, or 
projects through a reprogramming of funds in excess of 
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$750,000 or ten percent, whichever is less, that: (1) aug-
ments existing programs, projects, or activities; (2) reduces 
by 10 percent funding for any existing program, project, 
or activity, or numbers of personnel by ten percent as ap-
proved by Congress; or (3) results from any general savings, 
including savings from a reduction in personnel, which 
would result in a change in existing programs, activities, 
or projects as approved by Congress; unless the Committees 
on Appropriations are notified 15 days in advance of such 
reprogramming of funds. 
(c) For the purposes of providing the executive branch 
with the necessary administrative flexibility, none of the 
funds made available under titles II through V of this Act 
for ‘‘Global Health Programs’’, ‘‘Development Assistance’’, 
‘‘International Organizations and Programs’’, ‘‘Trade and 
Development Agency’’, ‘‘International Narcotics Control 
and Law Enforcement’’, ‘‘Andean Programs’’, ‘‘Assistance 
for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States’’, ‘‘Assistance for 
the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union’’, ‘‘Eco-
nomic Support Fund’’, ‘‘Democracy Fund’’, ‘‘Peacekeeping 
Operations’’, ‘‘Capital Investment Fund’’, ‘‘Operating Ex-
penses of the United States Agency for International Devel-
opment’’, ‘‘Operating Expenses of the United States Agency 
for International Development Office of Inspector General’’, 
‘‘Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related 
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Programs’’, ‘‘Millennium Challenge Corporation’’ (by coun-
try only), ‘‘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 Com-
mittees on Appropriations for obligation under any of these 
specific headings unless the Committees on Appropriations 
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 pur-
poses of section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act for the 
provision of major defense equipment, other than conven-
tional ammunition, or other major defense items defined 
to be aircraft, ships, missiles, or combat vehicles, not pre-
viously justified to Congress or 20 percent in excess of the 
quantities justified to Congress unless the Committees on 
Appropriations are notified 15 days in advance of such 
commitment: Provided further, That this subsection shall 
not apply to any reprogramming for an activity, program, 
or project for which funds are appropriated under titles III 
or IV of this Act of less than 10 percent of the amount pre-
viously justified to the Congress for obligation for such ac-
tivity, program, or project for the current fiscal year. 
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(d) 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 Appropria-
tions, may be waived if failure to do so would pose a sub-
stantial risk to human health or welfare: Provided, That 
in case of any such waiver, notification to the Congress, 
or the appropriate congressional committees, shall be pro-
vided as early as practicable, but in no event later than 
3 days after taking the action to which such notification 
requirement was applicable, in the context of the cir-
cumstances necessitating such waiver: Provided further, 
That any notification provided pursuant to such a waiver 
shall contain an explanation of the emergency cir-
cumstances. 
LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR 
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMS 
SEC. 616. 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 financing, 
and related programs, which are returned or not made 
available for organizations and programs because of the im-
plementation of section 307(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961, shall remain available for obligation until Sep-
tember 30, 2009: Provided, That section 307(a) of the For-
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eign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended by striking 
‘‘Libya,’’. 
INDEPENDENT STATES OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION 
SEC. 617. (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 if that government directs any action in vio-
lation 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: 
Provided, That such funds may be made available without 
regard to the restriction in this subsection if the President 
determines that to do so is in the national security interest 
of the United States. 
(b) None of the funds appropriated under the heading 
‘‘Assistance for the Independent States of the Former Soviet 
Union’’ shall be made available for any state to enhance 
its military capability: Provided, That this restriction does 
not apply to demilitarization, demining or nonproliferation 
programs. 
(c) Funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Assistance 
for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union’’ for 
the Russian Federation, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and 
Uzbekistan shall be subject to the regular notification proce-
dures of the Committees on Appropriations. 
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(d)(1) Of the funds appropriated under this heading 
that are allocated for assistance for the Government of the 
Russian Federation, 60 percent shall be withheld from obli-
gation until the President determines and certifies in writ-
ing to the Committees on Appropriations that the Govern-
ment of the Russian Federation— 
(A) has terminated implementation of arrange-
ments to provide Iran with technical expertise, train-
ing, technology, or equipment necessary to develop a 
nuclear reactor, related nuclear research facilities or 
programs, or ballistic missile capability; and 
(B) is providing full access to international non- 
government organizations providing humanitarian 
relief to refugees and internally displaced persons in 
Chechnya. 
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to— 
(A) assistance to combat infectious diseases, child 
survival activities, or assistance for victims of traf-
ficking in persons; and 
(B) activities authorized under title V (Non-
proliferation and Disarmament Programs and Activi-
ties) of the FREEDOM Support Act. 
(e) Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act shall 
not apply to— 
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(1) activities to support democracy or assistance 
under title V of the FREEDOM Support Act and sec-
tion 1424 of Public Law 104–201 or non-proliferation 
assistance; 
(2) any assistance provided by the Trade and 
Development Agency under section 661 of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2421); 
(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 In-
vestment 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. 
PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR ABORTIONS AND 
INVOLUNTARY STERILIZATION 
SEC. 618. None of the funds made available to carry 
out part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amend-
ed, may be used to pay for the performance of abortions 
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 Assistance Act 
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of 1961, as amended, may be used to pay for the perform-
ance 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 bio-
medical research which relates in whole or in part, to meth-
ods of, or the performance of, abortions or involuntary steri-
lization 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 abor-
tions and involuntary sterilizations. 
EXPORT FINANCING TRANSFER AUTHORITIES 
SEC. 619. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation 
other than for administrative expenses made available for 
fiscal year 2008, for programs under title II 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 authority shall 
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be subject to the regular notification procedures of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations. 
SPECIAL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 620. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
shall be obligated or expended for assistance for Serbia, 
Sudan, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Cuba, the Dominican Repub-
lic, Iran, Haiti, Mexico, Nepal, or Cambodia except as pro-
vided through the regular notification procedures of the 
Committees on Appropriations. 
DEFINITION OF PROGRAM, PROJECT, AND ACTIVITY 
SEC. 621. For the purpose of titles II through V of this 
Act ‘‘program, project, and activity’’ shall be defined at the 
appropriations Act account level and shall include all ap-
propriations and authorizations Acts earmarks, ceilings, 
and limitations with the exception that for the following 
accounts: ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ and ‘‘Foreign Mili-
tary Financing Program’’, ‘‘program, project, and activ-
ity’’ shall also be considered to include country, regional, 
and central program level funding within each such ac-
count; for the development assistance accounts of the United 
States Agency for International Development ‘‘program, 
project, and activity’’ shall also be considered to include 
central, country, regional, and program level funding, ei-
ther as: (1) justified to the Congress; or (2) allocated by 
the executive branch in accordance with a report, to be pro-
vided to the Committees on Appropriations within 30 days 
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of the enactment of this Act, as required by section 653(a) 
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. 
GLOBAL HEALTH ACTIVITIES 
SEC. 622. Up to $13,500,000 of the funds made avail-
able by this Act for assistance under the heading ‘‘Global 
Health Programs’’, may be used to reimburse United States 
Government agencies, agencies of State governments, insti-
tutions of higher learning, and private and voluntary orga-
nizations 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 United States 
Agency for International Development for the purpose of 
carrying out activities under that heading: Provided, That 
up to $3,500,000 of the funds made available by this Act 
for assistance under the heading ‘‘Development Assistance’’ 
may be used to reimburse such agencies, institutions, and 
organizations for such costs of such individuals carrying 
out other development assistance activities: Provided fur-
ther, That funds appropriated by titles III and IV of this 
Act that are made available for bilateral assistance for child 
survival activities or disease programs including activities 
relating to research on, and the prevention, treatment and 
control of, HIV/AIDS may be made available notwith-
standing any other provision of law except for the provi-
sions under the heading ‘‘Global Health Programs’’ and the 
United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, 
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and Malaria Act of 2003 (117 Stat. 711; 22 U.S.C. 7601 
et seq.), as amended: Provided further, That of the funds 
appropriated under title III of this Act, not less than 
$461,060,000 shall be made available for family planning/ 
reproductive health: Provided further, That in order to pre-
vent unintended pregnancies, abortions, and the trans-
mission of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/ 
AIDS, no contract or grant for the exclusive purpose of pro-
viding donated contraceptives in developing countries shall 
be denied to any nongovernmental organization solely on 
the basis of the policy contained in the President’s March 
28, 2001, Memorandum to the Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development with respect 
to providing contraceptives in developing countries, or any 
comparable administration policy regarding the provision 
of contraceptives. 
AFGHANISTAN 
SEC. 623. Of the funds appropriated by titles III and 
IV of this Act, up to $1,057,050,000 may be made available 
for assistance for Afghanistan, of which not less than 
$75,000,000 should be made available to support programs 
that directly address the needs of Afghan women and girls, 
of which not less than $12,000,000 shall be made available 
for grants to support training and equipment to improve 
the capacity of women-led Afghan nongovernmental organi-
zations and to support the activities of such organizations, 
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