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transfer and shall be disbursed within 30 days of the enactment
of this Act: Provided further, That not less than $535,000,000 shall
be available only for Egypt, which sum shall be provided on a
grant basis, and of which sum cash transfer assistance shall be
provided with the understanding that Egypt will undertake signifi-
cant economic reforms which are additional to those which were
undertaken in previous fiscal years, and of which $200,000,000
should be provided as Commodity Import Program assistance: Pro-
vided further, That with respect to the provision of assistance
for Egypt for democracy and governance activities, the organizations
implementing such assistance and the specific nature of that assist-
ance shall not be subject to the prior approval by the Government
of Egypt: Provided further, That in exercising the authority 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 nonmilitary 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 agree-
ment: 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 $13,500,000 of
the funds appropriated under this heading shall 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 between the two communities
on Cyprus: Provided further, That $35,000,000 of the funds appro-
priated under this heading shall be made available for assistance
for Lebanon, of which not less than $4,000,000 should be made
available for scholarships and direct support of American edu-
cational institutions in Lebanon: Provided further, That funds
appropriated under this heading may be used, notwithstanding
any other provision of law, to provide assistance to the National
Democratic Alliance of Sudan to strengthen its ability to protect
civilians from attacks, slave raids, and aerial bombardment by
the Sudanese Government forces and its militia allies, and the
provision of such funds shall be subject to the regular notification
procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further,
That in the previous proviso, the term ‘‘assistance’’ includes non-
lethal, non-food aid such as blankets, medicine, fuel, mobile clinics,
water drilling equipment, communications equipment to notify
civilians of aerial bombardment, non-military vehicles, tents, and
shoes: Provided further, That not to exceed $200,000,000 of the
funds appropriated under this heading may be used for the costs,
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974,
of modifying direct loans and guarantees for Pakistan: Provided
further, That amounts that are made available under the previous
proviso for the costs of modifying direct loans and guarantees shall
not be considered ‘‘assistance’’ for the purposes of provisions of
law limiting assistance to a country: Provided further, That of
the funds appropriated under this heading, not less than
$22,000,000 shall be made available for assistance for the Demo-
cratic Republic of Timor-Leste, of which up to $1,000,000 may
be available for administrative expenses of the United States
Agency for International Development: Provided further, That of
the funds available under this heading for assistance for Indonesia,
$3,000,000 should be made available to promote freedom of the