227
HR 2670 PP
ferred to and merged with appropriations for Salaries and
Expenses, including $500,000 for the Office of Inspector
General of the Small Business Administration for audits
and reviews of disaster loans and the disaster loan program,
and said sums shall be transferred to and merged with ap-
propriations for the Office of Inspector General.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—SMALL BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION
Not to exceed 10 percent of any appropriation made
available for the current fiscal year for the Small Business
Administration in this Act may be transferred between such
appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be in-
creased by more than 20 percent by any such transfers: Pro-
vided, That any transfer pursuant to this paragraph shall
be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 605
of this Act and shall not be available for obligation or ex-
penditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth
in that section.
STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the State Justice Institute,
as authorized by the State Justice Institute Authorization
Act of 1992 (Public Law 102–572 (106 Stat. 4515–4516)),
$6,850,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That not to exceed $2,500 shall be available for official re-
ception and representation expenses.
228
HR 2670 PP
TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 601. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes
not authorized by the Congress.
SEC. 602. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 603. The expenditure of any appropriation under
this Act for any consulting service through procurement
contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to
those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of pub-
lic record and available for public inspection, except where
otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing
Executive order issued pursuant to existing law.
SEC. 604. If any provision of this Act or the applica-
tion of such provision to any person or circumstances shall
be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the applica-
tion of each provision to persons or circumstances other
than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be affected
thereby.
SEC. 605. (a) None of the funds provided under this
Act, or provided under previous appropriations Acts to the
agencies funded by this Act that remain available for obli-
gation or expenditure in fiscal year 2000, or provided from
any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived
229
HR 2670 PP
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by
this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure
through a reprogramming of funds which: (1) creates new
programs; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity;
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any
project or activity for which funds have been denied or re-
stricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) reorganizes
offices, programs, or activities; or (6) contracts out or
privatizes any functions, or activities presently performed
by Federal employees; unless the Appropriations Commit-
tees of both Houses of Congress are notified 15 days in ad-
vance of such reprogramming of funds.
(b) None of the funds provided under this Act, or pro-
vided under previous appropriations Acts to the agencies
funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or
expenditure in fiscal year 2000, or provided from any ac-
counts in the Treasury of the United States derived by the
collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this
Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure for ac-
tivities, programs, or projects through a reprogramming of
funds in excess of $1,000,000 or 20 percent, whichever is
less, that: (1) augments existing programs, projects, or ac-
tivities; (2) reduces by 20 percent funding for any existing
program, project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by
20 percent as approved by Congress; or (3) results from any
230
HR 2670 PP
general savings from a reduction in personnel which would
result in a change in existing programs, activities, or
projects as approved by Congress; unless the Appropriations
Committees of both Houses of Congress are notified 15 days
in advance of such reprogramming of funds.
SEC. 606. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for the construction, repair (other than
emergency repair), overhaul, conversion, or modernization
of vessels for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin-
istration in shipyards located outside of the United States.
SEC. 607. (a) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIP-
MENT AND PRODUCTS.—It is the sense of the Congress that,
to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and prod-
ucts purchased with funds made available in this Act should
be American-made.
(b) NOTICE REQUIREMENT.—In providing financial
assistance to, or entering into any contract with, any entity
using funds made available in this Act, the head of each
Federal agency, to the greatest extent practicable, shall pro-
vide to such entity a notice describing the statement made
in subsection (a) by the Congress.
(c) PROHIBITION
OF CONTRACTS WITH PERSONS
FALSELY LABELING PRODUCTS AS MADE IN AMERICA.—
If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal agen-
cy that any person intentionally affixed a label bearing a
231
HR 2670 PP
‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any inscription with
the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to
the United States that is not made in the United States,
the person shall be ineligible to receive any contract or sub-
contract made with funds made available in this Act, pur-
suant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility proce-
dures described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 48,
Code of Federal Regulations.
SEC. 608. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce any
guidelines of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commis-
sion covering harassment based on religion, when it is made
known to the Federal entity or official to which such funds
are made available that such guidelines do not differ in any
respect from the proposed guidelines published by the Com-
mission on October 1, 1993 (58 Fed. Reg. 51266).
SEC. 609. (a) None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be expended for any
purpose for which appropriations are prohibited by section
609 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State,
the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
1999.
(b) The requirements in subparagraphs (A) and (B)
of section 609 of that Act shall continue to apply during
fiscal year 2000.
232
HR 2670 PP
SEC. 610. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
not more than 20 percent of the amount allocated to any
account or subaccount from an appropriation made by this
Act that is available for obligation only in the current fiscal
year may be obligated during the last two months of the
fiscal year.
SEC. 611. None of the funds made available in this
Act shall be used to provide the following amenities or per-
sonal comforts in the Federal prison system—
(1) in-cell television viewing except for prisoners
who are segregated from the general prison popu-
lation for their own safety;
(2) the viewing of R, X, and NC–17 rated mov-
ies, through whatever medium presented;
(3) any instruction (live or through broadcasts)
or training equipment for boxing, wrestling, judo, ka-
rate, or other martial art, or any bodybuilding or
weightlifting equipment of any sort;
(4) possession of in-cell coffee pots, hot plates or
heating elements; or
(5) the use or possession of any electric or elec-
tronic musical instrument.
SEC. 612. Any costs incurred by a department or agen-
cy funded under this Act resulting from personnel actions
taken in response to funding reductions included in this
233
HR 2670 PP
Act shall be absorbed within the total budgetary resources
available to such department or agency: Provided, That the
authority to transfer funds between appropriations ac-
counts as may be necessary to carry out this section is pro-
vided in addition to authorities included elsewhere in this
Act: Provided further, That use of funds to carry out this
section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under
section 605 of this Act and shall not be available for obliga-
tion or expenditure except in compliance with the proce-
dures set forth in that section.
SEC. 613. None of the funds made available in this
Act to the Federal Bureau of Prisons may be used to dis-
tribute or make available any commercially published in-
formation or material to a prisoner when it is made known
to the Federal official having authority to obligate or ex-
pend such funds that such information or material is sexu-
ally explicit or features nudity.
SEC. 614. Of the funds appropriated in this Act under
the heading ‘‘Office of Justice Programs—State and Local
Law Enforcement Assistance’’, not more than 90 percent
of the amount to be awarded to an entity under the Local
Law Enforcement Block Grant shall be made available to
such an entity when it is made known to the Federal official
having authority to obligate or expend such funds that the
entity that employs a public safety officer (as such term
234
HR 2670 PP
is defined in section 1204 of title I of the Omnibus Crime
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968) does not provide such
a public safety officer who retires or is separated from serv-
ice due to injury suffered as the direct and proximate result
of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty while re-
sponding to an emergency situation or a hot pursuit (as
such terms are defined by State law) with the same or better
level of health insurance benefits at the time of retirement
or separation as they received while on duty.
SEC. 615. (a) None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be expended for any
purpose for which appropriations are prohibited by section
616 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State,
the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
1999.
(b) Subsection (a)(1) of section 616 of that Act is
amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ after ‘‘Gonzalez’’; and
(2) by inserting before the semicolon at the end
of the following, ‘‘, Jean-Yvon Toussaint, and Jimmy
Lalanne’’.
(c) The requirements in subsections (b) and (c) of sec-
tion 616 of that Act shall continue to apply during fiscal
year 2000.
235
HR 2670 PP
SEC. 616. None of the funds appropriated pursuant
to this Act or any other provision of law may be used for
(1) the implementation of any tax or fee in connection with
the implementation of 18 U.S.C. 922(t); (2) any system to
implement 18 U.S.C. 922(t) that does not require and result
in the immediate destruction of any identifying informa-
tion submitted by or on behalf of any person who has been
determined not to be prohibited from owning a firearm.
SEC. 617. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this Act may be used to pay to house
any individual, other than an attorney, attending a Federal
law enforcement training center in a privately owned or
operated place of lodging.
SEC. 618. Section 309(j)(8) of the Communications Act
of 1934 is amended by adding new paragraph (D) as fol-
lows:
‘‘(D) PROTECTION OF INTERESTS.—
‘‘(i) Title 11, United States Code, or
any otherwise applicable Federal or state
law regarding insolvencies or receiverships,
or any succeeding Federal law not expressly
in derogation of this subsection, shall not
apply to or be construed to apply to the
Commission or limit the rights, powers, or
duties of the Commission with respect to (a)
236
HR 2670 PP
a license or permit issued by the Commis-
sion under this subsection or a payment
made to or a debt or other obligation owed
to the Commission relating to or rising
from such a license or permit, (b) an inter-
est of the Commission in property securing
such a debt or other obligation, or (c) an act
by the Commission to issue, deny, cancel, or
transfer control of such a license or permit.
‘‘(ii) Notwithstanding otherwise appli-
cable law, for each license or construction
permit issued by the Commission under this
subsection for which a debt or other mone-
tary obligation is owed to the Federal Com-
munications Commission or to the United
States, the Commission shall be deemed to
have a perfected, first priority security in-
terest in such license or permit, and in the
proceeds of sale of such license or permit, to
the extent of the outstanding balance of such
a debt or other obligation.
‘‘(iii) This paragraph shall apply
retroactively, including to pending cases
and proceedings whether on appeal or other-
wise.’’.
237
HR 2670 PP
SEC. 619. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available
by this Act may be provided for or used by the National
Security Council or personnel working for or detailed to
the Council.
SEC. 620. (a) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this
section—
(1) the term ‘‘agency’’ means the Federal Com-
munications Commission.
(2) the term ‘‘employee’’ means an employee (as
defined by section 2105 of title 5, United States Code)
who is serving under an appointment without time
limitation, and has been currently employed by such
agency for a continuous period of at least 3 years; but
does not include—
(A) a reemployed annuitant under sub-
chapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title
5, United States Code, or another retirement sys-
tem for employees of the Government;
(B) an employee having a disability on the
basis of which such employee is or would be eli-
gible for disability retirement under subchapter
III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title 5, United
States Code, or another retirement system for
employees of the Government;
238
HR 2670 PP
(C) an employee who has been duly notified
that he or she is to be involuntarily separated for
misconduct or unacceptable performance;
(D) an employee who has previously re-
ceived any voluntary separation incentive pay-
ment from the Federal Government under this
section or any other authority;
(E) an employee covered by statutory reem-
ployment rights who is on transfer to another or-
ganization; or
(F) any employee who, during the 24-month
period preceding the date of separation, has re-
ceived a recruitment or relocation bonus under
section 5753 of title 5, United States Code, or
who, within the 12-month period preceding the
date of separation, received a retention allowance
under section 5754 of that title.
(3) The term ‘‘Chairman’’ means the Chairman
of the Federal Communications Commission.
(b) AGENCY PLAN.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Chairman, prior to obli-
gating any resources for voluntary separation incen-
tive payments, shall simultaneously submit to the au-
thorizing and appropriating committees of the House
and the Senate and to the Office of Management and
239
HR 2670 PP
Budget a strategic plan outlining the intended use of
such incentive payments and a proposed organiza-
tional chart for the agency once such incentive pay-
ments have been completed.
(2) 
CONTENTS.—The 
agency’s 
plan 
shall
include—
(A) the positions and functions to be re-
duced, eliminated, and increased, as appro-
priate, identified by organizational unit, geo-
graphic location, occupational category and
grade level;
(B) the time period during which incentives
may be paid;
(C) the number and amounts of voluntary
separation incentive payments to be offered; and
(D) a description of how the agency will op-
erate without the eliminated positions and func-
tions and with any increased or changed occupa-
tional skill mix.
(3) CONSULTATION.—The Director of the Office
of Management and Budget shall review the agency’s
plan and may make appropriate recommendations
for the plan with respect to the coverage of incentives
as described under paragraph (2)(A), and with re-
spect to the matters described in paragraph (2) (B)
240
HR 2670 PP
and (C). Any such recommendations shall be sub-
mitted simultaneously to the authorizing and appro-
priating committees of the House and the Senate. The
Chairman shall not implement the agency plan with-
out prior written notification to the chairman of each
authorizing and appropriating committees of the
House and the Senate at least fifteen days in advance
of such implementation.
(c) AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE VOLUNTARY SEPARATION
INCENTIVE PAYMENTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—A voluntary separation incen-
tive payment under this section may be paid by the
Chairman to any employee only to the extent nec-
essary to eliminate the positions and functions identi-
fied by the strategic plan.
(2) AMOUNT AND TREATMENT OF PAYMENTS.—A
voluntary incentive payment—
(A) shall be paid in a lump sum, after the
employee’s separation;
(B) shall be equal to the lesser of—
(i) an amount equal to the amount the
employee would be entitled to receive under
section 5595(c) of title 5, United States
Code (without adjustment for any previous
payments made); or
241
HR 2670 PP
(ii) an amount determined by the
Chairman, not to exceed $25,000;
(C) may not be made except in the case of
any qualifying employee who voluntarily sepa-
rates (whether by retirement or resignation)
under the provisions of this section by not later
than September 30, 2001;
(D) shall not be a basis for payment, and
shall not be included in the computation, of any
other type of Government benefit; and
(E) shall not be taken into account in deter-
mining the amount of any severance pay to
which the employee may be entitled under section
5595 of title 5, United States Code, based on any
other separation.
(d) ADDITIONAL AGENCY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE RE-
TIREMENT FUND.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—In addition to any other pay-
ments which it is required to make under subchapter
III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title 5, United
States Code, the agency shall remit to the Office of
Personnel Management for deposit in the Treasury of
the United States to the credit of the Civil Service Re-
tirement and Disability Fund an amount equal to 15
percent of the final base pay of each employee of the
242
HR 2670 PP
agency who is covered under subchapter III of chapter
83 or chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code, to
whom a voluntary separation incentive has been paid
under this Act.
(2) DEFINITION.—For the purpose of paragraph
(1), the term ‘‘final basic pay’’, with respect to an
employee, means the total amount of basic pay which
would be payable for a year of service by such em-
ployee, computed using the employee’s final rate of
basic pay, and, if last serving on other than a full-
time basis, with appropriate adjustment therefor.
(e) EFFECT OF SUBSEQUENT EMPLOYMENT WITH THE
GOVERNMENT.—(1) An individual who has received a vol-
untary separation incentive payment from the agency
under this section and accepts any employment for com-
pensation with the Government of the United States, or who
works for any agency of the United States Government
through a personal services contract, within 5 years after
the date of the separation on which the payment is based
shall be required to pay, prior to the individual’s first day
of employment, the entire amount of the lump sum incen-
tive payment to the agency.
(2) If the employment under paragraph (1) is with
an executive agency (as defined by section 105 of title 5,
United States Code), the United States Postal Service, or
243
HR 2670 PP
the Postal Rate Commission, the Director of the Office of
Personnel Management may, at the request of the head of
the agency, waive the repayment if the individual involved
possesses unique abilities and is the only qualified appli-
cant available for the position.
(3) If the employment under paragraph (1) is with
an entity in the legislative branch, the head of the entity
or the appointing official may waive the repayment if the
individual involved possesses unique abilities and is the
only qualified applicant available for the position.
(4) If the employment under paragraph (1) is with
the judicial branch, the Director of the Administrative Of-
fice of the United States Courts may waive the repayment
if the individual involved possesses unique abilities and is
the only qualified applicant for the position.
(f) INTENDED EFFECT ON AGENCY EMPLOYMENT LEV-
ELS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Voluntary separations under
this section are not intended to necessarily reduce the
total number of full-time equivalent positions in the
Federal Communications Commission. The agency
may redeploy or use the full-time equivalent positions
vacated by voluntary separations under this section to
make other positions available to more critical loca-
tions or more critical occupations.
244
HR 2670 PP
(2) ENFORCEMENT.—The president, through the
Office of Management and Budget, shall monitor the
agency and take any action necessary to ensure that
the requirements of this subsection are met.
(g) REGULATIONS.—The Office of Personnel Manage-
ment may prescribe such regulations as may be necessary
to implement this section.
(h) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall take effect
on the date of enactment. (Departments of Commerce, Jus-
tice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 1999, as included in Public Law 105–277,
section 101(b).)
SEC. 621. The Secretary of Commerce (hereinafter the
‘‘Secretary’’) is hereby authorized and directed to create an
‘‘Interagency Task Force on Indian Arts and Crafts En-
forcement’’ to be composed of representatives of the United
States Trade Representative, the Department of Commerce,
the Department of the Interior, the Department of Justice,
the Department of the Treasury, the International Trade
Administration, and representatives of other agencies and
departments in the discretion of the Secretary to devise and
implement a coordinated enforcement response to prevent
the sale or distribution of any product or goods sold in or
shipped to the United States that is not in compliance with
the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1935, as amended.
245
HR 2670 PP
SEC. 622 (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate makes the fol-
lowing findings:
(1) When telephone area codes were first intro-
duced in 1947, 86 area codes covered all of North
America. There are now more than 215 area codes,
and an additional 70 area codes may be required in
the next 2 years.
(2) The current system for allocating numbers to
telecommunications carriers is woefully inefficient,
leading to the exhaustion of a telephone area code
long before all the telephone numbers covered by the
area code are actually in use.
(3) The proliferation of new telephone area codes
causes economic dislocation for businesses and unnec-
essary cost, confusion, and inconvenience for house-
holds.
(4) Principles and approaches exist that would
increase the efficiency with which telecommunications
carriers use telephone numbering resources.
(5) The May 27, l999, rulemaking proceeding of
the Federal Communications Commission relating to
numbering resource optimization seeks to address the
growing problem of the exhaustion of telephone area
codes.
246
HR 2670 PP
(b) SENSE OF SENATE.—It is the sense of the Senate
that—
(1) the Federal Communications Commission
shall release its report and order on numbering re-
source optimization not later than December 31,
1999;
(2) such report and order should minimize any
disruptions and costs to consumers and businesses as-
sociated with the implementation of such report and
order; and
(3) such report and order should apply not only
to large metropolitan areas but to all areas of the
United States that are facing the problem of exhaus-
tion of telephone numbers.
SEC. 623. PROHIBITION ON REQUIREMENT FOR USE
OF ACCOUNTING METHOD NOT CONFORMING
TO GEN-
ERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES. No part of
any appropriations contained in this Act shall be used by
the Federal Communications Commission to require any
person subject to its jurisdiction under the Communications
Act of 1934, as amended (47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) to utilize
for any purpose any form or method of accounting that does
not conform to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
247
HR 2670 PP
SEC. 624. (a) The total discretionary amount made
available by this Act is reduced by $92,000,000: Provided,
That the reduction pursuant to this subsection shall be
taken pro rata from travel, supplies, and printing expenses
made available to the agencies funded by this Act, except
for activities related to the 2000 census.
(b) Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment
of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and
Budget shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations
of the House of Representatives and the Senate a listing
of the amounts by account of the reductions made pursuant
to the provisions of subsection (a).
SEC. 625. PROHIBITION OF TRANSFER OF A FIREARM
TO AN INTOXICATED PERSON. (a) PROHIBITION OF TRANS-
FER.—Section 922(d) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (8) and (9) as
paragraphs (9) and (10), respectively; and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (7) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(8) is intoxicated;’’.
(b) DEFINITION OF INTOXICATED.—Section 921(a) of
title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the
end the following:
248
HR 2670 PP
‘‘(35) The term ‘intoxicated’, in reference to a
person, means being in a mental or physical condi-
tion of impairment as a result of the presence of alco-
hol in the body of the person.’’.
SEC. 626. (a) To implement the June 3, 1999 Agree-
ment of the United States and Canada on the Treaty Be-
tween the Government of the United States of America and
the Government of Canada Concerning Pacific Salmon (the
‘‘1999 Agreement’’) $140,000,000 is authorized only for use
and expenditure as described in subsection (b).
(b)(1) $75,000,000 for grants to provide the initial
capital for a Northern Boundary and Transboundary Riv-
ers Restoration and Enhancement Fund to be held by the
Pacific Salmon Commission and administered jointly by
the Pacific Salmon Commission Commissioner for the State
of Alaska with Canada according to a trust agreement to
be entered into by the United States and Canada for the
purposes of research, habitat restoration, and fish enhance-
ment to promote abundance-based, conservation-oriented
fishing regimes.
(2) $65,000,000 for grants to provide the initial cap-
ital for a Southern Boundary and Transboundary Rivers
Restoration and Enhancement Fund to be held by the Pa-
cific Salmon Commission and administered jointly with
Canada by the Pacific Salmon Commission Commissioners
249
HR 2670 PP
for the States of Washington, Oregon, and California ac-
cording to a trust agreement to be entered into by the
United States and Canada for the purposes of research,
habitat restoration, and fish enhancement to promote abun-
dance-based, conservation-oriented fishing regimes.
(3)(i) Amounts provided by grants under paragraphs
(1) and (2) may be held in interest-bearing accounts prior
to the disbursement of such funds for program purposes,
and any interest earned may be retained for program pur-
poses without further appropriation by Congress;
(ii) the Northern Boundary and Transboundary Riv-
ers Restoration and Enhancement Fund and Southern
Boundary and Transboundary Rivers Restoration and En-
hancement Fund are subject to the laws governing Federal
appropriations and funds and to unrescinded circulars of
the Office of Management and Budget, including the audit
requirements of the Office of Management and Budget Cir-
cular Nos. A–110, A–122 and A–133; and
(iii) Recipients of funds from the Northern Boundary
and Transboundary Rivers Restoration and Enhancement
Fund and Southern Boundary and Transboundary Rivers
Restoration and Enhancement Fund, which for the pur-
poses of this subparagraph shall include interest earned
pursuant to subparagraph (i), shall keep separate accounts
250
HR 2670 PP
and such records as may be reasonably necessary to disclose
the use of the funds as well as facilitate effective audits.
(c) The President shall submit a request for funds to
implement this section as part of his official budget request
for the fiscal year 2001.
SEC. 627. Funds made available under Public Law
105–277 for costs associated with implementation of the
American Fisheries Act of 1998 (Division C, title II, of
Public Law 105–277) for vessel documentation activities
shall remain available until expended.
SEC. 628. (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate makes the fol-
lowing findings:
(1) Iran has been designated as a state sponsor
of terrorism by the Secretary of State and continues
to be among the most active supporters of terrorism
in the world.
(2) According to the State Department’s annual
report entitled ‘‘Patterns of Global Terrorism’’, Iran
supports Hizballah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Is-
lamic Jihad, terrorist organizations which oppose the
Middle East peace process, continue to work for the
destruction of Israel, and have killed United States
citizens.
(3) A United States district court ruled in
March 1998 that Iran should pay $247,000,000 to the