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WEST BANK AND GAZA PROGRAM
SEC. 578. For fiscal year 2001, 30 days prior to the
initial obligation of funds for the bilateral West Bank and
Gaza Program, the Secretary of State shall certify to the
appropriate committees of Congress that procedures have
been established to assure the Comptroller General of the
United States will have access to appropriate United
States financial information in order to review the uses
of United States assistance for the Program funded under
the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ for the West Bank
and Gaza.
INDONESIA
SEC. 579. Funds appropriated by this Act under the
heading ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’ may be
made available for Indonesia if the President determines
and submits a report to the appropriate congressional
committees that the Indonesian government and the Indo-
nesian armed forces are—
(1) taking effective measures to bring to justice
members of the armed forces and militia groups
against whom there is credible evidence of human
rights violations;
(2) taking effective measures to bring to justice
members of the armed forces against whom there is
credible evidence of aiding or abetting militia
groups;
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(3) allowing displaced persons and refugees to
return home to East Timor, including providing safe
passage for refugees returning from West Timor;
(4) not impeding the activities of the United
Nations Transitional Authority in East Timor
(UNTAET);
(5) demonstrating a commitment to preventing
incursions into East Timor by members of militia
groups in West Timor; and
(6) demonstrating a commitment to account-
ability by cooperating with investigations and pros-
ecutions of members of the Indonesian armed forces
and militia groups responsible for human rights vio-
lations in Indonesia and East Timor.
MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE
SEC. 580. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be provided for the
United Nations Man and the Biosphere Program or the
United Nations World Heritage Fund.
CONSULTATIONS ON ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN
SEC. 581. Consistent with the intent of Congress ex-
pressed in the enactment of section 3(b) of the Taiwan
Relations Act, the Secretary of State shall consult with
the appropriate committees and leadership of Congress to
devise a mechanism to provide for congressional input
prior to making any determination on the nature or quan-
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tity of defense articles and services to be made available
to Taiwan.
RESTRICTION ON UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE FOR CER-
TAIN RECONSTRUCTION EFFORTS IN CENTRAL EU-
ROPE
SEC. 582. Funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act for United States assistance for East-
ern Europe and the Baltic States should to the maximum
extent practicable be used for the procurement of articles
and services of United States origin.
RESTRICTIONS ON ASSISTANCE TO GOVERNMENTS
DESTABILIZING SIERRA LEONE
SEC. 583. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this
Act may be made available for assistance for the govern-
ment of any country that the Secretary of State deter-
mines there is credible evidence that such government has
provided lethal or non-lethal military support or equip-
ment, directly or through intermediaries, within the pre-
vious 6 months to the Sierra Leone Revolutionary United
Front (RUF), or any other group intent on destabilizing
the democratically elected government of the Republic of
Sierra Leone.
(b) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may
be made available for assistance for the government of any
country that the Secretary of State determines there is
credible evidence that such government has aided or abet-
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ted, within the previous 6 months, in the illicit distribu-
tion, transportation, or sale of diamonds mined in Sierra
Leone.
(c) Whenever the prohibition on assistance required
under subsection (a) or (b) is exercised, the Secretary of
State shall notify the Committees on Appropriations in a
timely manner.
VOLUNTARY SEPARATION INCENTIVES
SEC. 584. Section 579(c)(2)(D) of the Foreign Oper-
ations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appro-
priations Act, 2000, as enacted by section 1000(a)(2) of
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law
106–113), is amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2000’’
and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘December 31, 2001’’.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND
SEC. 585. (1) LIMITATIONS ON AMOUNT OF CON-
TRIBUTION.—Of the amounts made available under
‘‘International Organizations and Programs’’, not more
than $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2001 shall be available
for the United Nations Population Fund (hereafter in this
subsection referred to as the ‘‘UNFPA’’).
(2) PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS IN CHINA.—
None of the funds made available under ‘‘International
Organizations and Programs’’ may be made available for
the UNFPA for a country program in the People’s Repub-
lic of China.
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(3) CONDITIONS
ON AVAILABILITY
OF FUNDS.—
Amounts made available under ‘‘International Organiza-
tions and Programs’’ for fiscal year 2001 for the UNFPA
may not be made available to UNFPA unless—
(A) the UNFPA maintains amounts made
available to the UNFPA under this section in an ac-
count separate from other accounts of the UNFPA;
(B) the UNFPA does not commingle amounts
made available to the UNFPA under this section
with other sums; and
(C) the UNFPA does not fund abortions.
(4) REPORT TO THE CONGRESS AND WITHHOLDING
OF FUNDS.—
(A) Not later than February 15, 2001, the Sec-
retary of State shall submit a report to the appro-
priate congressional committees indicating the
amount of funds that the United Nations Population
Fund is budgeting for the year in which the report
is submitted for a country program in the People’s
Republic of China.
(B) If a report under subparagraph (A) indi-
cates that the United Nations Population Fund
plans to spend funds for a country program in the
People’s Republic of China in the year covered by
the report, then the amount of such funds that the
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UNFPA plans to spend in the People’s Republic of
China shall be deducted from the funds made avail-
able to the UNFPA after March 1 for obligation for
the remainder of the fiscal year in which the report
is submitted.
AUTHORIZATION FOR POPULATION PLANNING
SEC. 586. (a) AUTHORIZATION.—Not to exceed
$385,000,000 of the funds appropriated in title II of this
Act may be available for population planning activities or
other population assistance.
(b) RESTRICTION ON ASSISTANCE TO FOREIGN OR-
GANIZATIONS THAT PERFORM OR ACTIVELY PROMOTE
ABORTIONS.—
(1) PERFORMANCE OF ABORTIONS.—(A) Not-
withstanding section 614 of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961, or any other provision of law, no funds
appropriated by title II of this Act for population
planning activities or other population assistance
may be made available for any foreign private, non-
governmental, or multilateral organization until the
organization certifies that it will not, during the pe-
riod for which the funds are made available, perform
abortions in any foreign country, except where the
life of the mother would be endangered if the preg-
nancy were carried to term or in cases of forcible
rape or incest.
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(B) Subparagraph (A) may not be construed to
apply to the treatment of injuries or illnesses caused
by legal or illegal abortions or to assistance provided
directly to the government of a country.
(2) 
LOBBYING
ACTIVITIES.—(A) 
Notwith-
standing section 614 of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961, or any other provision of law, no funds ap-
propriated by title II of this Act for population plan-
ning activities or other population assistance may be
made available for any foreign private, nongovern-
mental, or multilateral organization until the organi-
zation certifies that it will not, during the period for
which the funds are made available, violate the laws
of any foreign country concerning the circumstances
under which abortion is permitted, regulated, or pro-
hibited, or engage in activities or efforts to alter the
laws or governmental policies of any foreign country
concerning the circumstances under which abortion
is permitted, regulated, or prohibited.
(B) Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to activi-
ties in opposition to coercive abortion or involuntary
sterilization.
(3) APPLICATION
TO
FOREIGN
ORGANIZA-
TIONS.—The prohibitions and certifications of this
subsection apply to funds made available to a for-
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eign organization either directly or as a subcon-
tractor or subgrantee.
(c) WAIVER AUTHORITY.—
(1) AUTHORITY.—The President may waive the
restrictions contained in subsection (b) that require
certifications from foreign private, nongovernmental,
or multilateral organizations.
(2) REDUCTION OF ASSISTANCE.—In the event
the President exercises the authority contained in
paragraph (1) to waive either or both subsections
(b)(1) and (b)(2), then—
(A) assistance authorized by subsection (a)
and allocated for population planning activities
or other population assistance shall be reduced
by a total of $12,500,000, and that amount
shall be transferred from funds appropriated by
this Act under the heading ‘‘Development As-
sistance’’ and consolidated and merged with
funds appropriated by this Act under the head-
ing ‘‘Child Survival and Disease Programs
Fund’’; and
(B) notwithstanding any other provision of
law, such transferred funds that would have
been made available for population planning ac-
tivities or other population assistance shall be
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made available for infant and child health pro-
grams that have a direct, measurable, and high
impact on reducing the incidence of illness and
death among children.
(3) LIMITATION.—The authority provided in
paragraph (1) may be exercised to allow the provi-
sion of not more than $15,000,000, in the aggre-
gate, to all foreign private, nongovernmental, or
multilateral organizations with respect to which such
authority is exercised.
(4) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS.—Upon exer-
cising the authority provided in paragraph (1), the
President shall report in writing to the Committee
on Appropriations and the Committee on Foreign
Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Ap-
propriations and the Committee on International Re-
lations of the House of Representatives.
AMERICAN CHURCHWOMEN IN EL SALVADOR
SEC. 587. (a) Information relevant to the December
2, 1980, murders of four American churchwomen in El
Salvador shall be made public to the fullest extent pos-
sible.
(b) The Secretary of State and the Department of
State are to be commended for fully releasing information
regarding the murders.
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(c) The President shall order all Federal agencies and
departments that possess relevant information to make
every effort to declassify and release to the victims’ fami-
lies relevant information as expeditiously as possible.
(d) In making determinations concerning the declas-
sification and release of relevant information, the Federal
agencies and departments shall presume in favor of releas-
ing, rather than of withholding, such information.
HIPC TRUST FUND CONDITIONS
SEC. 588. Beginning in fiscal year 2002, funds shall
be appropriated to the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
Initiative only when the President of the World Bank and
the Managing Director of the International Monetary
Fund submit a certification to the Secretary of the Treas-
ury that the Institutions they head will not include user
fees or service charges through ‘‘community financing’’,
‘‘cost sharing’’, ‘‘cost recovery’’, or any other mechanism
for primary education or primary healthcare, including
prevention and treatment efforts for AIDS, malaria, tu-
berculosis, and infant, child, and maternal well-being in
their Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers or any other
HIPC-related debt relief or economic reform program or
plan or any other International Monetary Fund or World
Bank loan or reform program.
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SEC. 589. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to pay for the performance of abortion
or to lobby for or against abortion.
PROCUREMENT AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT REFORM
SEC. 590. (a) Of the funds made available under the
heading ‘‘International Financial Institutions’’ in this or
any prior Act making appropriations for foreign oper-
ations, export financing, or related programs, 10 percent
of the United States portion or payment to any inter-
national financial institution shall be withheld by the Sec-
retary of the Treasury, until the Secretary certifies that—
(1) the institution is implementing procedures
for conducting semiannual audits by qualified inde-
pendent auditors for all new lending;
(2) the institution has taken steps to establish
an independent fraud and corruption investigative
organization or office;
(3) the institution has implemented a program
to assess a recipient country’s procurement and fi-
nancial management capabilities, including an anal-
ysis of the risks of corruption prior to initiating new
lending; and
(4) the institution is taking steps to fund and
implement independent third-party procurement
monitoring and other similar measures designed to
improve transparency, anticorruption programs, pro-
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curement, and financial management controls in re-
cipient countries.
(b) REPORT.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall
report on March 1, 2001, to the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Committee
on Appropriations of the Senate on progress made to ful-
fill the objectives identified in subsection (a).
(c) DEFINITION.—The term ‘‘international financial
institution’’ means the International Bank for Reconstruc-
tion and Development, the International Development As-
sociation, the International Finance Corporation, the
Inter-American Development Bank, the Inter-American
Investment Corporation, the Enterprise for the Americas
Multilateral Investment Fund, the Asian Development
Bank, the Asian Development Fund, the African Develop-
ment Bank, the African Development Fund, the European
Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the Inter-
national Monetary Fund.
SEC. 591. No funds in this Act may be used in con-
travention of section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19
U.S.C. 1307).
SEC. 592. No funds in this Act may be used in con-
travention of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a
et seq.; popularly known as the ‘‘Buy American Act’’).
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PROHIBITION ON ASSUMPTION BY UNITED STATES GOV-
ERNMENT OF LIABILITY FOR NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS
IN NORTH KOREA
SEC. 593. (a) PROHIBITION.—None of the funds ap-
propriated or otherwise made available by this Act may
be used to enter into any agreement, contract, or other
arrangement which imposes liability on the United States
Government, or otherwise require financial indemnity by
the United States Government, for nuclear accidents that
may occur at nuclear reactors in the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea.
(b) EXCEPTION.—Subsection (a) shall not apply to
any treaty subject to approval by the Senate pursuant to
article II, section 2, clause 2 of the Constitution of the
United States.
TITLE VI—MOZAMBIQUE, MADAGASCAR, AND
SOUTHERN AFRICA REHABILITATION AND
RECONSTRUCTION
The following sums are appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other pur-
poses, namely:
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BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT
AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
INTERNATIONAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE
For an additional amount for ‘‘International Disaster
Assistance’’, $160,000,000, for rehabilitation and recon-
struction assistance for Mozambique, Madagascar, and
southern Africa, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That none of the funds appropriated under this
heading may be made available for nonproject assistance:
Provided further, That prior to any obligation of funds ap-
propriated under this heading, the Administrator of the
Agency for International Development shall provide the
Committees on Appropriations with a detailed report con-
taining the amount of the proposed obligation and a de-
scription of the programs and projects, on a country-by-
country basis, to be funded with such amount: Provided
further, That up to $12,000,000 of the funds appropriated
under this heading may be charged to finance obligations
for which appropriations available under chapter 1 and 10
of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 were ini-
tially charged for assistance for rehabilitation and recon-
struction for Mozambique, Madagascar, and southern Af-
rica: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated
under this heading, up to $5,000,000 may be used for ad-
ministrative expenses, including auditing costs, of the
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Agency for International Development associated with the
assistance furnished under this heading: Provided further,
That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as
an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further,
That the entire amount provided shall be available only
to the extent an official budget request that includes des-
ignation of the entire amount of the request as an emer-
gency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is
transmitted by the President to the Congress.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Foreign Operations,
Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations
Act, 2001’’.
Passed the House of Representatives July 13, 2000.
Attest:
JEFF TRANDAHL,
Clerk.