water delivery, and sewerage systems, which were 
substantially destroyed by years of armed conflict, 
and support the Government of Liberia’s efforts to 
improve key sections of Liberia’s national all weath-
er road system, which is rudimentary, fragmented, 
and in need of substantial repairs; 
(3) create a stream-lined and simplified legal 
and regulatory investment regime, including an inte-
grated one-stop investment licensing system, in 
order to facilitate and increase domestic and foreign 
investment and foster entrepreneurship; 
(4) enhance Liberian Government account-
ability and effectiveness, including with respect to 
managerial and administrative competency in order 
to ensure that all central government ministries, 
functional agencies, and other public entities— 
(A) develop capacities to provide efficient, 
cost-effective, ethical, and rule of law-based 
public goods and services to the Liberian peo-
ple; and 
(B) implement measures to counter and 
overcome the persisting effects of Liberia’s long 
legacy of poor governance, corrupt practices, 
and the frequent absence of democratic ac-
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countability under previous Liberian adminis-
trations; 
(5) foster an informed and independent na-
tional legislature capable of effectively crafting and 
enacting laws, budgets, and appropriation measures, 
interacting with the executive branch as a respon-
sible and co-equal branch of government, and car-
rying out legislative oversight functions; 
(6) build the operational capacity of the Libe-
rian National Police, other civilian public security 
agencies, and other elements of the justice system, 
including the court and penal systems, in order to— 
(A) ensure that civilian public security 
agencies are capable of providing public safety, 
and that together with the other elements of 
the justice system, effectively, equitably, and 
without ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, or 
age-based prejudice, constitutionally enforce Li-
berian laws; and 
(B) prevent the recurrence of past patterns 
of behavior by public security agencies during 
the tenure of multiple past Liberian administra-
tions, during which ill-trained personnel fre-
quently abetted abuses of political power by the 
national government, engaged in corrupt acts, 
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and committed numerous and often serious 
abuses of human rights and civic freedoms; 
(7) build a national system of vocational edu-
cation available, in particular, to war-affected youth 
and ex-combatants, and to employ such persons, 
among others, in the construction of public works 
projects, both as a means of making them productive 
citizens and in order to deter their potential partici-
pation in illicit income-generating activities; and 
(8) assist Liberian Government efforts to ad-
vance post-war national reconciliation, transitional 
justice, and legal accountability for past or current 
acts of misgovernance by government officials and 
others. 
SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF ASSISTANCE. 
(a) DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE.—The President is 
authorized to provide assistance to Liberia for the fol-
lowing activities and purposes: 
(1) ROADS AND BRIDGES.—Phased refurbish-
ment or upgrading of existing key roads and bridges, 
initially targeting routes that carry the highest 
goods and services traffic, that support farm-to-mar-
ket transport needs, or that provide linkages be-
tween key urban and rural population centers, nota-
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bly those that provide linkages to isolated regions of 
the country. 
(2) FREEPORT
OF
MONROVIA.—Rehabilitation 
of Monrovia Freeport, initially targeting priority 
needs pertaining to the following objectives: 
(A) Measures to facilitate and secure sea- 
going vessel navigation within the harbor, in-
cluding dredging of silted areas, removal of 
shipwrecks, and installation of navigation lights 
or signals. 
(B) Rehabilitation of port wharf berths 
and piers, including installation of equipment 
necessary for loading and unloading sea-going 
vessels or for purposes of delivering mainte-
nance services to such vessels. 
(C) Rehabilitation of warehouse buildings 
nearby or adjacent to the main wharves, associ-
ated adjacent port roads and facilities or equip-
ment necessary for transferring goods between 
sea-going vessels and land-based vehicles and 
for loading or unloading land-based vehicles. 
(D) Upgrading of goods transit, transfer, 
and import and export processing and customs 
systems at the port, including with respect to 
automation and streamlining of required paper-
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work and permit processing, and enhancement 
of port security, including through the provision 
of training to the Liberian Port Police and im-
provements to the perimeter security of the en-
tire port zone. 
(3) WATER AND SANITATION.—Phased design 
and reconstruction of potable water sources, such as 
reservoirs, wells, boreholes, and water distribution 
and treatment systems, and sewerage infrastructure, 
initially in areas with the highest population den-
sities, in order to provide widespread public access 
to basic potable water and water sanitation. 
(4) ELECTRICITY
SECTOR.—Subject to sub-
section (e)(2), phased reconstruction of electricity 
generating plants, and associated electrical power 
transmission and distribution networks and support 
for feasibility studies related to that purpose, ini-
tially beginning in areas with the highest population 
concentrations, with the eventual aim of connecting 
all major population centers to a national power grid 
or otherwise ensuring access to electrical power 
throughout Liberia, to include the following: 
(A) EPPII.—Continued support for the 
Emergency Power Program II in the city of 
Monrovia, as necessary. 
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(B) 
RURAL
POWER.—Small 
electrical 
power generation projects using biomass, micro- 
hydrological, solar, or other small scale, renew-
able, or local resource technologies to serve the 
short and medium-term needs of key secondary 
and rural population centers in Liberia. 
(C) MEDIUM AND LONG TERM POWER.— 
Assistance in support of the following: 
(i) The design and reconstruction of a 
customer 
demand-driven, 
market-based, 
medium term electrical generation and dis-
tribution system serving Monrovia and ad-
jacent urban zones. 
(ii) An assessment of future electrical 
demand in key secondary population cen-
ters in Liberia and of the associated costs 
required for extending electrical power to 
these centers from main electrical power 
generation hubs in Buchanan, Yekepa, 
Monrovia, Mt. Coffee, or other potential 
generation sites. 
(iii) Preparatory activities to be un-
dertaken prior to the physical rehabilita-
tion of the Mt. Coffee hydro-electric dam 
and plant facility, including an environ-
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mental impact assessment, a study of po-
tential local socio-economic and population 
displacement impacts, engineering and cost 
assessments of the facility, architectural 
and engineering designs necessary for its 
rehabilitation, and the formulation of a 
market-based, 
customer 
demand-driven 
business plan aimed at ensuring that the 
rehabilitated facility can be operated on a 
financially sustainable basis. 
(5) TARGETED
JOB
TRAINING
AND
MEDIUM- 
TERM EMPLOYMENT.—Expansion of support for vo-
cational education programs available to war-af-
fected youth and ex-combatants, including those who 
have previously received reintegration and job train-
ing assistance but remain unemployed or under-
employed, among other populations, and support for 
the employment of jobless war-affected youth and 
ex-combatants in public works projects undertaken 
by the Liberian Government or its development part-
ners. 
(b) ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUND ASSISTANCE.—The 
President is authorized to provide assistance to Liberia 
for the following activities and purposes: 
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(1) PUBLIC SECTOR.—Assistance to support the 
establishment of a government employee training in-
stitute, assistance to support and enhance one or 
more existing Government of Liberia-designated 
public sector training organizations, such as the Li-
beria Institute of Public Administration, or assist-
ance for both objectives, to be undertaken— 
(A) for the purpose of making general and 
specialized 
managerial, 
administrative, 
and 
service delivery training available to employees 
of the Government of Liberia, including employ-
ees of central government ministries, inde-
pendent agencies, commissions, county and 
local governments, and other civilian govern-
ment entities, including judicial, police, and se-
curity agencies; 
(B) in partnership with one or more exter-
nal partner organizations that possess technical 
training expertise in public sector training, such 
as the Les Aspin Center for Government at 
Marquette University; and 
(C) with the objective of developing a per-
manent Government of Liberia capacity to 
maintain a qualified and well-trained public sec-
tor work force. 
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(2) GOOD GOVERNANCE.—Technical assistance 
to enhance Liberian Government accountability and 
effectiveness, improve transparent and accountable 
fiscal management and revenue collection and ex-
penditure processes and institutions, and ensure that 
central government ministries, functional agencies, 
and other public entities develop an enhanced capac-
ity to provide efficient, cost-effective, ethical, and 
rule of law-based public goods and services to the 
Liberian people, including support for related capac-
ity development efforts being pursued under the 
Governance and Economic Management Assistance 
Program (GEMAP) during its remaining period of 
operation, and support for economic good govern-
ance capacity building programs or initiatives en-
dorsed or implemented by the Liberia Reconstruc-
tion and Development Committee (LRDC), its Steer-
ing Committee, or its four Working Committees, as 
long as the United States shall possess a formal role 
as a participant or partner on the LRDC or any 
analogous Liberian entity that may in the future 
succeed the LRDC, including by supporting efforts 
to— 
(A) improve budgeting and expenditure 
management; 
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(B) improve procurement practices and 
granting of concessions; 
(C) establish, implement, and institu-
tionalize processes to control corruption; 
(D) provide technical support to key finan-
cial management institutions of government; 
(E) build the professional capacity of Libe-
rian public sector institutions and professionals; 
and 
(F) 
foster 
consultations 
between 
the 
LRDC, other Liberian Government organs, and 
representatives of interested Liberian civil soci-
ety groups and nongovernmental organizations 
in matters pertaining to public policy decision 
making in order to ensure that diverse political 
and policy perspectives are considered during 
the formulation of such policies. 
(3) UNITED
STATES
EDUCATION
TO
BUILD 
GOVERNMENT
CAPACITY.—Assistance to facilitate 
educational exchanges to enable Liberian Govern-
ment officials and professional staff, to include 
members of the executive, legislative, and judicial 
branches of government, to pursue training or edu-
cational opportunities in the United States, so long 
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