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health threat to those nations that had previously largely con-
trolled the disease. This is complicated in the United States
by the growth of the homeless population, the rate of incarcer-
ation, international travel, immigration, and HIV/AIDS.
(5) With nearly 40 percent of the tuberculosis cases in
the United States attributable to foreign-born persons, tuber-
culosis will never be controlled in the United States until
it is controlled abroad.
(6) The means exist to control tuberculosis through
screening, diagnosis, treatment, patient compliance, monitoring,
and ongoing review of outcomes.
(7) Efforts to control tuberculosis are complicated by several
barriers, including—
(A) the labor intensive and lengthy process involved
in screening, detecting, and treating the disease;
(B) a lack of funding, trained personnel, and medicine
in virtually every nation with a high rate of the disease;
(C) the unique circumstances in each country, which
requires the development and implementation of country-
specific programs; and
(D) the risk of having a bad tuberculosis program,
which is worse than having no tuberculosis program
because it would significantly increase the risk of the
development of more widespread drug-resistant strains of
the disease.
(8) Eliminating the barriers to the international control
of tuberculosis through a well-structured, comprehensive, and
coordinated worldwide effort would be a significant step in
dealing with the increasing public health problem posed by
the disease.
SEC. 203. ASSISTANCE FOR TUBERCULOSIS PREVENTION, TREATMENT,
CONTROL, AND ELIMINATION.
Section 104(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.
2151b(c)), as amended by section 111(a) of this Act, is further
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(7)(A) Congress recognizes the growing international problem
of tuberculosis and the impact its continued existence has on those
nations that had previously largely controlled the disease. Congress
further recognizes that the means exist to control and treat tuber-
culosis, and that it is therefore a major objective of the foreign
assistance program to control the disease. To this end, Congress
expects the agency primarily responsible for administering this
part—
‘‘(i) to coordinate with the World Health Organization, the
Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health,
and 
other 
organizations 
toward 
the 
development 
and
implementation of a comprehensive tuberculosis control pro-
gram; and
‘‘(ii) to set as a goal the detection of at least 70 percent
of the cases of infectious tuberculosis, and the cure of at least
85 percent of the cases detected, in those countries in which
the agency has established development programs, by December
31, 2010.
‘‘(B) There is authorized to be appropriated to the President,
$60,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2001 and 2002 to be used
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to carry out this paragraph. Funds appropriated under this subpara-
graph are authorized to remain available until expended.’’.
TITLE III—ADMINISTRATIVE
AUTHORITIES
SEC. 301. EFFECTIVE PROGRAM OVERSIGHT.
Section 635 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.
2395) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new
subsection:
‘‘(l) The Administrator of the agency primarily responsible for
administering part I may use funds made available under that
part to provide program and management oversight for activities
that are funded under that part and that are conducted in countries
in which the agency does not have a field mission or office.’’.
SEC. 302. TERMINATION EXPENSES.
Section 617 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.
2367) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘SEC. 617. TERMINATION EXPENSES.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Funds made available under this Act and
the Arms Export Control Act, may remain available for obligation
for a period not to exceed 8 months from the date of any termination
of assistance under such Acts for the necessary expenses of winding
up programs related to such termination and may remain available
until expended. Funds obligated under the authority of such Acts
prior to the effective date of the termination of assistance may
remain available for expenditure for the necessary expenses of
winding up programs related to such termination notwithstanding
any provision of law restricting the expenditure of funds. In order
to ensure the effectiveness of such assistance, such expenses for
orderly termination of programs may include the obligation and
expenditure of funds to complete the training or studies outside
their countries of origin of students whose course of study or
training program began before assistance was terminated.
‘‘(b) LIABILITY TO CONTRACTORS.—For the purpose of making
an equitable settlement of termination claims under extraordinary
contractual relief standards, the President is authorized to adopt
as a contract or other obligation of the United States Government,
and assume (in whole or in part) any liabilities arising thereunder,
any contract with a United States or third-country contractor that
had been funded with assistance under such Acts prior to the
termination of assistance.
‘‘(c) TERMINATION EXPENSES.—Amounts certified as having been
obligated for assistance subsequently terminated by the President,
or pursuant to any provision of law, shall continue to remain
available and may be reobligated to meet any necessary expenses
arising from the termination of such assistance.
‘‘(d) GUARANTY PROGRAMS.—Provisions of this or any other
Act requiring the termination of assistance under this or any other
Act shall not be construed to require the termination of guarantee
commitments that were entered into prior to the effective date
of the termination of assistance.
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‘‘(e) RELATION TO OTHER PROVISIONS.—Unless specifically made
inapplicable by another provision of law, the provisions of this
section shall be applicable to the termination of assistance pursuant
to any provision of law.’’.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.