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(e) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—The authority provided 
by subsection (a) may be used only with regard to funds 
appropriated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Debt Restruc-
turing’’. 
REPORTING REQUIREMENT 
SEC. 567. The Secretary of State shall provide the 
Committees on Appropriations, not later than January 1, 
2007, and for each fiscal quarter thereafter, a report in 
writing on the uses of funds made available under the head-
ings ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’, ‘‘Inter-
national Military Education and Training’’, and ‘‘Peace-
keeping Operations’’: Provided, That such report shall in-
clude a description of the obligation and expenditure of 
funds, and the specific country in receipt of, and the use 
or purpose of the assistance provided by such funds. 
EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH 
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND CERTAIN OTHER COUNTRIES 
SEC. 568. Notwithstanding section 516(e) of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2321j(e)), during 
fiscal year 2007, funds available to the Department of De-
fense may be expended for crating, packing, handling, and 
transportation of excess defense articles transferred under 
the authority of section 516 of such Act to Albania, Afghani-
stan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Former Yugoslavian Re-
public of Macedonia, Georgia, India, Iraq, Kazakhstan, 
Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Paki-
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stan, Romania, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, 
Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. 
UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 
DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 569. (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. 
(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, 2008. 
(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
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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 
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 
$10,000,000 to fund overseas support costs of members of 
the Foreign Service with a Foreign Service rank of four
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or below: Provided, That such authority may only be used 
to reduce USAID’s reliance on overseas personal services 
contractors or other nondirect-hire employees 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’’. 
(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 
States Agency for International Development whose pri-
mary responsibility is to carry out programs in response 
to natural disasters. 
ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMS 
SEC. 570. (a) FUNDING.—Of the funds appropriated 
under the heading ‘‘Development Assistance’’, not less than 
$175,500,000 shall be made available for programs and ac-
tivities which directly protect biodiversity, including for-
ests, in developing countries, of which not less than 
$10,000,000 should be made available to implement the 
United States Agency for International Development’s bio-
diversity conservation strategy for the Amazon basin, which
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amount shall be in addition to the amounts requested for 
biodiversity activities in these countries in fiscal year 2007: 
Provided, That of the funds appropriated by this Act, not 
less than $17,500,000 should be made available for the 
Congo Basin Forest Partnership of which not less than 
$2,500,000 should be made available to the United States 
Fish and Wildlife Service for the protection of great apes 
in Central Africa: Provided further, That of the funds ap-
propriated by this Act, not less than $180,000,000 shall be 
made available to support clean energy and other climate 
change policies and programs in developing countries, of 
which $100,000,000 should be made available to directly 
promote and deploy energy conservation, energy efficiency, 
and renewable and clean energy technologies, and of which 
the balance should be made available to directly: (1) meas-
ure, monitor, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions; (2) in-
crease carbon sequestration activities; and (3) enhance cli-
mate change mitigation and adaptation programs. 
(b) CLIMATE CHANGE REPORT.—Not later than 60 
days after the date on which the President’s fiscal year 2008 
budget request is submitted to Congress, the President shall 
submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations de-
scribing in detail the following— 
(1) all Federal agency obligations and expendi-
tures, domestic and international, for climate change