may cause the total amount of United States Government
contributions to the Global Fund to exceed one-half of the
total amount of funds contributed to the Global Fund
from all other sources: Provided further, That if, by June
30, 2004, the application of the previous proviso prevents
a contribution of the full amount allocated for the Global
Fund, the amount that cannot be made available for the
Global Fund may be made available by the Coordinator,
through relevant executive branch agencies, for activities
to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, or malaria, subject to
prior consultation with the Committees on Appropriations:
Provided further, That in carrying out the duties specified
in section 1(f)(2)(B)(ii)(VII) of the State Department
Basic Authorities Act of 1956, the Coordinator shall en-
sure that assistance is provided for activities in not fewer
than 15 countries, at least one of which shall not be in
Africa or the Caribbean region: Provided further, That of
the funds appropriated under this heading, up to
$60,000,000 may be made available for a United States
contribution to the Vaccine Fund, and up to $6,000,000
may be transferred to and merged with funds appropriated
by this Act under the heading ‘‘Operating Expenses of the
United States Agency for International Development’’ for
costs directly related to international health, but funds
made available for such costs may not be derived from
amounts made available for contribution under the pre-
ceding provisos: Provided further, That notwithstanding
any other provision of this Act, funds appropriated under
this heading that are available for child survival and
health programs, shall be apportioned to the Office of the
Coordinator, or the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development, and the authority of sections
632(a) or 632(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
or any comparable provision of law, may not be used to
transfer or allocate any part of such funds to the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services including any office
of that agency, except that the authority of those sections
may be used to transfer or allocate up to $35,000,000 of
such funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion: Provided further, That none of the funds made avail-
able in this Act nor any unobligated balances from prior
appropriations may be made available to any organization
or program which, as determined by the President of the
United States, supports or participates in the manage-
ment of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary
sterilization: Provided further, That none of the funds
made available under this Act may be used to pay for the
performance of abortion as a method of family planning
or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions:
Provided further, That none of the funds made available
under this Act may be used to lobby for or against abor-
tion: Provided further, That in order to reduce reliance on
abortion in developing nations, funds shall be available
only to voluntary family planning projects which offer, ei-
ther directly or through referral to, or information about
access to, a broad range of family planning methods and
services, and that any such voluntary family planning
project shall meet the following requirements: (1) service
providers or referral agents in the project shall not imple-
ment or be subject to quotas, or other numerical targets,
of total number of births, number of family planning ac-
ceptors, or acceptors of a particular method of family
planning (this provision shall not be construed to include
the use of quantitative estimates or indicators for budg-
eting and planning purposes); (2) the project shall not in-
clude payment of incentives, bribes, gratuities, or financial
reward to: (A) an individual in exchange for becoming a
family planning acceptor; or (B) program personnel for
achieving a numerical target or quota of total number of
births, number of family planning acceptors, or acceptors
of a particular method of family planning; (3) the project
shall not deny any right or benefit, including the right of
access to participate in any program of general welfare
or the right of access to health care, as a consequence
of any individual’s decision not to accept family planning
services; (4) the project shall provide family planning ac-
ceptors comprehensible information on the health benefits
and risks of the method chosen, including those conditions
that might render the use of the method inadvisable and
those adverse side effects known to be consequent to the
use of the method; and (5) the project shall ensure that
experimental contraceptive drugs and devices and medical
procedures are provided only in the context of a scientific
study in which participants are advised of potential risks
and benefits; and, not less than 60 days after the date
on which the Administrator of the United States Agency
for International Development determines that there has
been a violation of the requirements contained in para-
graph (1), (2), (3), or (5) of this proviso, or a pattern
or practice of violations of the requirements contained in
paragraph (4) of this proviso, the Administrator shall sub-
mit to the Committees on Appropriations a report con-
taining a description of such violation and the corrective
action taken by the Agency: Provided further, That in
awarding grants for natural family planning under section
104 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 no applicant
shall be discriminated against because of such applicant’s
religious or conscientious commitment to offer only nat-
ural family planning; and, additionally, all such applicants
shall comply with the requirements of the previous proviso:
Provided further, That for purposes of this or any other
Act authorizing or appropriating funds for foreign oper-
ations, export financing, and related programs, the term
‘‘motivate’’, as it relates to family planning assistance,
shall not be construed to prohibit the provision, consistent
with local law, of information or counseling about all preg-
nancy options: Provided further, That nothing in this para-
graph shall be construed to alter any existing statutory
prohibitions against abortion under section 104 of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided further, That
information provided about the use of condoms as part
of projects or activities that are funded from accounts ap-
propriated by this Act shall be medically accurate and
shall include the public health benefits and failure rates
of such use.
DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
For necessary expenses of the United States Agency
for International Development to carry out the provisions
of sections 103, 105, 106, and 131, and chapter 10 of
part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
$1,317,000,000, of which up to $50,000,000 may remain
available until September 30, 2005: Provided, That none
of the funds appropriated under title II of this Act that
are managed by or allocated to the United States Agency
for International Development’s Global Development Sec-
retariat, may be made available except through the regular
notification procedures of the Committees on Appropria-
tions: Provided further, That $194,000,000 should be allo-
cated for trade capacity building: Provided further, That
$250,000,000 should be allocated for basic education: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds appropriated under this
heading and managed by the United States Agency for
International Development Bureau of Democracy, Con-
flict, and Humanitarian Assistance, not less than
$11,000,000 shall be made available only for programs to
improve women’s leadership capacity in recipient coun-
tries: Provided further, That such funds may not be made
available for construction: Provided further, That of the
funds appropriated under this heading that are made
available for assistance programs for displaced and or-
phaned children and victims of war, not to exceed
$32,500, in addition to funds otherwise available for such
purposes, may be used to monitor and provide oversight
of such programs.
INTERNATIONAL DISASTER AND FAMINE ASSISTANCE
For necessary expenses of the United States Agency
for International Development to carry out the provisions
of section 491 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as
amended for international disaster relief, rehabilitation,
and reconstruction assistance, $235,500,000, to remain
available until expended.
DEVELOPMENT CREDIT AUTHORITY
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct loans and loan guarantees pro-
vided by the United States Agency for International De-
velopment, as authorized by sections 108 and 635 of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, funds may be derived by
transfer from funds appropriated by this Act to carry out
part I of such Act and under the heading ‘‘Assistance for
Eastern Europe and the Baltic States’’: Provided, That
such funds shall not exceed $21,000,000, which shall be
made available only for micro and small enterprise pro-
grams, urban programs, and other programs which fur-
ther the purposes of part I of the Act: Provided further,
That such costs shall be as defined in section 502 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That
the provisions of section 107A(d) (relating to general pro-
visions applicable to the Development Credit Authority)
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as contained in
section 306 of H.R. 1486 as reported by the House Com-
mittee on International Relations on May 9, 1997, shall
be applicable to direct loans and loan guarantees provided
under this heading. In addition, for administrative ex-
penses to carry out credit programs administered by the
United States Agency for International Development,
$8,000,000, which may be transferred to and merged with
the appropriation for Operating Expenses of the United
States Agency for International Development: Provided
further, That funds made available under this heading
shall remain available until September 30, 2007.
PAYMENT TO THE FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT AND
DISABILITY FUND
For payment to the ‘‘Foreign Service Retirement and
Disability Fund’’, as authorized by the Foreign Service
Act of 1980, $43,859,000.
OPERATING EXPENSES OF THE UNITED STATES AGENCY
FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of section 667 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
$604,100,000, of which $30,000,000 may remain avail-
able until September 30, 2005: Provided, That none of
the funds appropriated under this heading and under the
heading ‘‘Capital Investment Fund’’ may be made avail-
able to finance the construction (including architect and
engineering services), purchase, or long term lease of of-
fices for use by the United States Agency for International
Development, unless the Administrator has identified such
proposed construction (including architect and engineering
services), purchase, or long term lease of offices in a re-
port submitted to the Committees on Appropriations at
least 15 days prior to the obligation of these funds for
such purposes: Provided further, That the previous proviso
shall not apply where the total cost of construction (in-
cluding architect and engineering services), purchase, or
long term lease of offices does not exceed $1,000,000: Pro-
vided further, That in addition not to exceed $15,000,000
may be derived by transfer from the ‘‘Iraq Relief and Re-
construction Fund’’ (Public Law 108–11) to support the
United States Agency for International Development mis-
sion in Iraq: Provided further, That none of the funds in
this Act may be used to open a new overseas mission of
the United States Agency for International Development
without the prior written notification of the Committees
on Appropriations: Provided further, That the authority of
sections 610 and 109 of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961 may be exercised by the Secretary of State to trans-
fer funds appropriated to carry out chapter 1 of such Act
to ‘‘Operating Expenses of the United States Agency for
International Development’’ in accordance with the provi-
sions of those sections.
CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND
For necessary expenses for overseas construction and
related costs, and for the procurement and enhancement
of information technology and related capital investments
of the United States Agency for International Develop-
ment, pursuant to section 667 of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961, $49,300,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That this amount is in addition to funds
otherwise available for such purposes: Provided further,
That the Administrator of the United States Agency for
International Development shall assess fair and reasonable
rental payments for the use of space by employees of other
United States Government agencies in buildings con-
structed using funds appropriated under this heading, and
such rental payments shall be deposited into this account
as an offsetting collection: Provided further, That the rent-
al payments collected pursuant to the previous proviso and
deposited as an offsetting collection shall be available for
obligation only pursuant to the regular notification proce-
dures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided fur-
ther, That the assignment of United States Government
employees or contractors to space in buildings constructed
using funds appropriated under this heading shall be sub-
ject to the concurrence of the Administrator of the United
States Agency for International Development: Provided
further, That funds appropriated under this heading shall
be available for obligation only pursuant to the regular
notification procedures of the Committees on Appropria-
tions.
OPERATING EXPENSES OF THE UNITED STATES AGENCY
FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICE OF IN-
SPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of section 667 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
$35,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
2005, which sum shall be available for the Office of the
Inspector General of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development.
OTHER BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUND
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of chapter 4 of part II, $2,240,500,000 to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2005: Provided, That of the
funds appropriated under this heading, not less than
$480,000,000 shall be available only for Israel, which sum
shall be available on a grant basis as a cash transfer and
shall be disbursed within 30 days of the enactment of this
Act: Provided further, That not less than $575,000,000
shall be available only for Egypt, which sum shall be pro-
vided on a grant basis, and of which sum cash transfer
assistance shall be provided with the understanding that
Egypt will undertake significant economic reforms which
are additional to those which were undertaken in previous
fiscal years: Provided further, That in exercising the au-
thority to provide cash transfer assistance for Israel, the
President shall ensure that the level of such assistance
does not cause an adverse impact on the total level of non-
military exports from the United States to such country
and that Israel enters into a side letter agreement in an
amount proportional to the fiscal year 1999 agreement:
Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under
this heading, not less than $250,000,000 should be made
available only for assistance for Jordan: Provided further,
That not less than $12,000,000 of the funds appropriated
under this heading should be made available for Cyprus
to be used only for scholarships, administrative support
of the scholarship program, bicommunal projects, and
measures aimed at reunification of the island and designed
to reduce tensions and promote peace and cooperation be-
tween the two communities on Cyprus: Provided further,
That not less than $35,000,000 of the funds appropriated
under this heading should be made available for assistance
for Lebanon of which not less than $4,000,000 should be
available only for American educational institutions for
scholarships and other programs: Provided further, That
notwithstanding section 534(a) of this Act, funds appro-
priated under this heading that are made available for as-
sistance for the Central Government of Lebanon shall be
subject to the regular notification procedures of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations: Provided further, That not to
exceed $65,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this
heading in this Act may be made available for the costs,
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974, of modifying direct loans and guarantees for
Pakistan: 
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$67,000,000 shall be available to the Department of State
Office of Overseas Buildings Operation for construction
of United States Agency for International Development
facilities in Mali, Guinea, Cambodia, and Georgia: Pro-
vided further, That funds appropriated under this heading
shall be made available for administrative costs of the
United States Agency for International Development to
provide adequate security, carry out programs in Afghani-
stan, and implement regional programs in Asia and the
Near East, including the Middle East Partnership Initia-
tive, in addition to amounts otherwise available for such
purposes: Provided further, That with respect to funds ap-
propriated under this heading in this Act or prior Acts
making appropriations for foreign operations, export fi-
nancing, and related programs, the responsibility for pol-
icy decisions and justifications for the use of such funds,
including whether there will be a program for a country
that uses those funds and the amount of each such pro-
gram, shall be the responsibility of the Secretary of State
and the Deputy Secretary of State and this responsibility
shall not be delegated.
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR IRELAND
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961, $19,600,000, which shall be available for the United
States contribution to the International Fund for Ireland
and shall be made available in accordance with the provi-
sions of the Anglo-Irish Agreement Support Act of 1986
(Public Law 99–415): Provided, That such amount shall
be expended at the minimum rate necessary to make time-
ly payment for projects and activities: Provided further,
That funds made available under this heading shall re-
main available until September 30, 2005.
ASSISTANCE FOR EASTERN EUROPE AND THE BALTIC
STATES
(a) For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Support
for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989,
$452,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
2005, which shall be available, notwithstanding any other
provision of law, for assistance and for related programs
for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States: Provided, That
funds appropriated under this heading shall be considered
to be economic assistance under the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961 for purposes of making available the adminis-
trative authorities contained in that Act for the use of eco-
nomic assistance: Provided further, That funds made avail-
able for assistance for Kosovo from funds appropriated
under this heading and under the headings ‘‘Economic
Support Fund’’ and ‘‘International Narcotics Control and
Law Enforcement’’ should not exceed 15 percent of the
total resources pledged by all donors for calendar year
2004 for assistance for Kosovo as of March 31, 2004.
(b) Funds appropriated under this heading or in prior
appropriations Acts that are or have been made available
for an Enterprise Fund may be deposited by such Fund
in interest-bearing accounts prior to the Fund’s disburse-
ment of such funds for program purposes. The Fund may
retain for such program purposes any interest earned on
such deposits without returning such interest to the Treas-
ury of the United States and without further appropria-
tion by the Congress. Funds made available for Enterprise
Funds shall be expended at the minimum rate necessary
to make timely payment for projects and activities.
(c) With regard to funds appropriated under this
heading for the economic revitalization program in Bosnia
and Herzegovina, and local currencies generated by such
funds (including the conversion of funds appropriated
under this heading into currency used by Bosnia and
Herzegovina as local currency and local currency returned
or repaid under such program) the Administrator of the
United States Agency for International Development shall
provide written approval for grants and loans prior to the
obligation and expenditure of funds for such purposes, and
prior to the use of funds that have been returned or repaid
to any lending facility or grantee.
(d) The provisions of section 529 of this Act shall
apply to funds made available under subsection (c) and
to funds appropriated under this heading: Provided, That
notwithstanding any provision of this or any other Act,
including provisions in this subsection regarding the appli-
cation of section 529 of this Act, local currencies gen-
erated by, or converted from, funds appropriated by this
Act and by previous appropriations Acts and made avail-
able for the economic revitalization program in Bosnia
may be used in Eastern Europe and the Baltic States to
carry out the provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961 and the Support for East European Democracy
(SEED) Act of 1989.
(e) The President is authorized to withhold funds ap-
propriated under this heading made available for economic
revitalization programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, if he
determines and certifies to the Committees on Appropria-
tions that the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has
not complied with article III of annex 1–A of the General
Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and
Herzegovina concerning the withdrawal of foreign forces,
and that intelligence cooperation on training, investiga-
tions, and related activities between state sponsors of ter-
rorism and terrorist organizations and Bosnian officials
has not been terminated.
ASSISTANCE FOR THE INDEPENDENT STATES OF THE
FORMER SOVIET UNION
(a) For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of chapters 11 and 12 of part I of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961 and the FREEDOM Support Act, for assist-
ance for the Independent States of the former Soviet
Union and for related programs, $576,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2005: Provided, That the
provisions of such chapters shall apply to funds appro-
priated by this paragraph: Provided further, That of the
funds made available for the Southern Caucasus region,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds may be
used for confidence-building measures and other activities
in furtherance of the peaceful resolution of the regional
conflicts, especially those in the vicinity of Abkhazia and
Nagorno-Karabagh: Provided further, That of the funds
appropriated under this heading, $1,500,000 should be
available only to meet the health and other assistance
needs of victims of trafficking in persons: Provided further,
That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds
appropriated under this heading in this Act or prior Acts
making appropriations for foreign operations, export fi-
nancing, and related programs, that are made available
pursuant to the provisions of section 807 of the FREE-
DOM Support Act (Public Law 102–511) shall be subject
to a 6 percent ceiling on administrative expenses.
(b) Of the funds appropriated under this heading, not
less than $70,000,000 should be made available for assist-
ance for Armenia and not less than $90,000,000 should
be available for assistance for Russia.
(c)(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
obligation until the President determines and certifies in
writing to the Committees on Appropriations that the Gov-
ernment 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
trafficking in persons; and
(B) activities authorized under title V (Non-
proliferation and Disarmament Programs and Ac-
tivities) of the FREEDOM Support Act.
(d) Of the funds appropriated under this heading, not
less than $63,000,000 should be made available, in addi-
tion to funds otherwise available for such purposes, for
assistance for child survival, environmental and reproduc-
tive health, and to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and
other infectious diseases, and for related activities.
(e) Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act shall
not apply to—
(1) activities to support democracy or assist-
ance under title V of the FREEDOM Support Act
and section 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 For-
eign 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
Investment Corporation under title IV of chapter 2