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(c) CONDITIONS.—The authority of subsection (a) 
may only be used to the extent that an equivalent number 
of positions that are filled by personal services contractors 
or other non-direct hire employees of USAID, who are 
compensated with funds appropriated to carry out part I 
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, including funds 
appropriated under the heading ‘‘ASSISTANCE FOR 
EASTERN EUROPE AND THE BALTIC STATES’’, 
are eliminated. 
(d) PRIORITY SECTORS.—In exercising the authority 
of this section, primary emphasis shall be placed on ena-
bling USAID to meet personnel positions in technical skill 
areas currently encumbered by contractor or other non- 
direct hire personnel. 
(e) CONSULTATIONS.—The USAID Administrator 
shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations at 
least on a quarterly basis concerning the implementation 
of this section. 
(f) PROGRAM ACCOUNT CHARGED.—The account 
charged for the cost of an individual hired and employed 
under the authority of this section shall be the account 
to which such individual’s responsibilities primarily relate. 
Funds made available to carry out this section may be 
transferred to and merged and consolidated with funds ap-
propriated for ‘‘OPERATING EXPENSES OF THE 
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UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 
DEVELOPMENT’’. 
(g) MANAGEMENT REFORM PILOT.—Of the funds 
made available in subsection (a), USAID may use, in addi-
tion to funds otherwise available for such purposes, up to 
$10,000,000 to fund overseas support costs of members 
of the Foreign Service with a Foreign Service rank of four 
or below: Provided, That such authority is only used to 
reduce USAID’s reliance on overseas personal services 
contractors or other non-direct hire employees com-
pensated with funds appropriated to carry out part I of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, including funds ap-
propriated under the heading ‘‘ASSISTANCE FOR 
EASTERN EUROPE AND THE BALTIC STATES’’. 
(h) DISASTER SURGE CAPACITY.—Funds appro-
priated under title III of this Act to carry out part I of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, including funds ap-
propriated under the heading ‘‘ASSISTANCE FOR 
EASTERN EUROPE AND THE BALTIC STATES’’, 
may be used, in addition to funds otherwise available for 
such purposes, for the cost (including the support costs) 
of individuals detailed to or employed by the United States 
Agency for International Development whose primary re-
sponsibility is to carry out programs in response to natural 
disasters. 
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OPIC TRANSFER AUTHORITY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 679. Whenever the President determines that 
it is in furtherance of the purposes of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961, up to a total of $20,000,000 of the 
funds appropriated under title III of this Act may be 
transferred to and merged with funds appropriated by this 
Act for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation Pro-
gram Account, to be subject to the terms and conditions 
of that account: Provided, That such funds shall not be 
available for administrative expenses of the Overseas Pri-
vate Investment Corporation: Provided further, That des-
ignated funding levels in this Act shall not be transferred 
pursuant to this section: Provided further, That the exer-
cise of such authority shall be subject to the regular notifi-
cation procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 
REPORTING REQUIREMENT 
SEC. 680. The Secretary of State shall provide the 
Committees on Appropriations, not later than April 1, 
2008, and for each fiscal quarter, a report in writing on 
the uses of funds made available under the headings 
‘‘FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING PROGRAM’’, 
‘‘INTERNATIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION AND 
TRAINING’’, and ‘‘PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS’’: 
Provided, That such report shall include a description of 
the obligation and expenditure of funds, and the specific 
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country in receipt of, and the use or purpose of the assist-
ance provided by such funds. 
ANTICORRUPTION PROVISIONS 
SEC. 681. Twenty percent of the funds appropriated 
under title V of this Act under the heading ‘‘INTER-
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE’’, shall be 
withheld from disbursement until the Secretary of the 
Treasury reports to the appropriate Congressional com-
mittees on the extent to which the World Bank has com-
pleted the following: 
(1) World Bank procurement guidelines have 
been applied to all procurement financed in whole or 
in part by a loan from the World Bank or a credit 
agreement or grant from the International Develop-
ment Association (IDA). 
(2) The World Bank proposal ‘‘Increasing the 
Use of Country Systems in Procurement’’ dated 
March 2005 has been withdrawn. 
(3) The World Bank maintains a strong central 
procurement office staffed with senior experts who 
are designated to address commercial concerns, 
questions, and complaints regarding procurement 
procedures and payments under IDA and World 
Bank projects. 
(4) Thresholds for international competitive 
bidding have been established to maximize inter-
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national competitive bidding in accordance with 
sound 
procurement 
practices, 
including 
trans-
parency, competition, and cost-effective results for 
the Borrowers. 
(5) All tenders under the World Bank’s na-
tional competitive bidding provisions are subject to 
the same advertisement requirements as tenders 
under international competitive bidding. 
(6) Loan agreements between the World Bank 
and the Borrowers have been made public. 
INDONESIA 
SEC. 682. Of the funds appropriated by this Act 
under the heading ‘‘FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING 
PROGRAM’’, not more than $6,000,000 may be made 
available for assistance for Indonesia, until the Secretary 
of State reports to the Committees on Appropriations on 
steps taken by the Government of Indonesia on the fol-
lowing— 
(1) prosecution and punishment, in a manner 
proportional to the crime, for members of the Armed 
Forces who have been credibly alleged to have com-
mitted gross violations of human rights; 
(2) cooperation by the Armed Forces, at the di-
rection of the President of Indonesia, with civilian 
judicial authorities and with international efforts to 
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resolve cases of gross violations of human rights in 
East Timor and elsewhere; and 
(3) implementation by the Armed Forces, at the 
direction of the President of Indonesia, of reforms to 
increase the transparency and accountability of their 
operations and financial management. 
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GROWTH FUND 
SEC. 683. ESTABLISHMENT
OF
THE GROWTH 
FUND.— 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State, act-
ing through the Director of United States Foreign 
Assistance, shall establish the Global Resources and 
Opportunities for Women to Thrive (GROWTH) 
Fund for the purpose of enhancing economic oppor-
tunities for very poor, poor, and low-income women 
in developing countries with a focus on— 
(A) increasing women-owned enterprise de-
velopment; 
(B) increasing property rights for women; 
(C) increasing women’s access to financial 
services; 
(D) increasing women in leadership in im-
plementing organizations, such as indigenous 
nongovernmental 
organizations, 
community- 
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based organizations, and regulated financial 
intermediaries; 
(E) improving women’s employment bene-
fits and conditions; and 
(F) increasing women’s ability to benefit 
from global trade. 
(2) ROLE OF USAID MISSIONS.—The Fund shall 
be available to USAID missions to apply for addi-
tional funding to support specific additional activi-
ties that enhance women’s economic opportunities or 
to integrate gender into existing economic oppor-
tunity programs. 
(b) ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED.—The Fund shall be 
available to USAID missions to support— 
(1) initiatives to eliminate legal and institu-
tional barriers to women’s ownership of assets, ac-
cess to credit, access to information and communica-
tion technologies, and engagement in business activi-
ties within or outside of the home; 
(2) microfinance and microenterprise develop-
ment programs that— 
(A) specifically target women with respect 
to outreach and marketing; and 
(B) provide products specifically to address 
women’s assets, needs, and the barriers women 
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encounter with respect to participation in enter-
prise and financial services; 
(3) programs, projects, and activities for enter-
prise development for women in developing countries 
that— 
(A) in coordination with developing coun-
try governments and interested individuals and 
organizations, encourage or enhance laws, regu-
lations, enforcement, and other practices that 
promote access to banking and financial serv-
ices for women-owned small- and medium-sized 
enterprises, and eliminate or reduce regulatory 
barriers that may exist in this regard; 
(B) promote access to information and 
communication technologies (ICT) with training 
in ICT for women-owned small- and medium- 
sized enterprises; 
(C) provide training, through local associa-
tions of women-owned enterprises or nongovern-
mental organizations in record keeping, finan-
cial and personnel management, international 
trade, business planning, marketing, policy ad-
vocacy, leadership development, and other rel-
evant areas; 
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(D) provide resources to establish and en-
hance local, national, and international net-
works and associations of women-owned small- 
and medium-sized enterprises; 
(E) provide incentives for nongovernmental 
organizations and regulated financial inter-
mediaries to develop products, services, and 
marketing and outreach strategies specifically 
designed to facilitate and promote women’s par-
ticipation in small- and medium-sized business 
development programs by addressing women’s 
assets, needs, and the barriers they face to par-
ticipation in enterprise and financial services; 
and 
(F) seek to award contracts to qualified in-
digenous women-owned small- and medium- 
sized enterprises, including for post-conflict re-
construction and to facilitate employment of in-
digenous women, including during post-conflict 
reconstruction in jobs not traditionally under-
taken by women; 
(4) programs, projects, and activities for the 
promotion of private property rights and land tenure 
security for women in developing countries that are 
implemented by local, indigenous nongovernmental 
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and community-based organizations dedicated to ad-
dressing the needs of women, especially women’s or-
ganizations that— 
(A) advocate to amend and harmonize 
statutory and customary law to give women 
equal rights to own, use, and inherit property; 
(B) promote legal literacy among women 
and men about property rights for women and 
how to exercise such rights; 
(C) assist women in making land claims 
and protecting women’s existing claims; and 
(D) advocate for equitable land titling and 
registration for women; 
(5) activities to increase women’s access to em-
ployment and to higher quality employment with 
better remuneration and working conditions in devel-
oping countries, including access to insurance and 
other social safety nets, in informal and formal em-
ployment relative to core labor standards determined 
by the International Labor Organization. Such ac-
tivities should include— 
(A) public education efforts to inform poor 
women and men of their legal rights related to 
employment; 
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(B) education and vocational training tai-
lored to enable poor women to access opportuni-
ties in potential growth sectors in their local 
economies and in jobs within the formal and in-
formal sectors where women are not tradition-
ally highly represented; 
(C) efforts to support self-employed poor 
women or wage workers to form or join inde-
pendent unions or other labor associations to 
increase their income and improve their work-
ing conditions; and 
(D) advocacy efforts to protect the rights 
of women in the workplace, including— 
(i) developing programs with the par-
ticipation of civil society to eliminate gen-
der-based violence; and 
(ii) providing capacity-building assist-
ance to women’s organizations to effec-
tively research and monitor labor rights 
conditions; 
(6) assistance to governments and organizations 
in developing countries seeking to design and imple-
ment laws, regulations, and programs to improve 
working conditions for women and to facilitate their 
entry into and advancement in the workplace; 
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(7) training and education to women in civil so-
ciety, including those organizations representing 
poor women, and to women-owned enterprises and 
associations of such enterprises, on how to respond 
to economic opportunities created by trade pref-
erence programs, trade agreements, or other policies 
creating market access, including training on United 
States market access requirements and procedures; 
(8) capacity-building for women entrepreneurs, 
including microentrepreneurs, on production strate-
gies, quality standards, formation of cooperatives, 
market research, and market development; 
(9) capacity-building to women, including poor 
women, to promote diversification of products and 
value-added processing; 
(10) training to official government negotiators 
representing developing countries in order to en-
hance the ability of such negotiators to formulate 
trade policy and negotiate agreements that take into 
account the respective needs and priorities of a 
country’s poor women and men; 
(11) training to local, indigenous women’s 
groups in developing countries in order to enhance 
their ability to collect information and data, formu-
late proposals, and inform and impact official gov-
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ernment negotiators representing their country in 
international trade negotiations of the respective 
needs and priorities of a country’s poor women and 
men; and 
(12) technical assistance and capacity-building 
to local, indigenous civil society for— 
(A) local indigenous women’s organizations 
to the maximum extent practicable; and 
(B) nongovernmental organizations and 
regulated financial intermediaries that dem-
onstrate a commitment to gender equity in their 
leadership either through current practice or 
through specific programs to increase the rep-
resentation of women in their governance and 
management. 
PEACEKEEPING CAP 
SEC. 684. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 404(b)(2)(B) 
of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 
1994 and 1995, (22 U.S.C. 287e note) is amended at the 
end by adding the following: ‘‘(v) For assessments made 
during calendar year 2008, 27.1 percent.’’. 
LIMITATION ON BASING IN IRAQ 
SEC. 685. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Government of the United States 
to enter into a basing rights agreement between the 
United States and Iraq. 
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PROHIBITION ON USE OF TORTURE 
SEC. 686. None of the funds made available in this 
Act shall be used in any way whatsoever to support or 
justify the use of torture by any official or contract em-
ployee of the United States Government. 
REPORT ON INDONESIAN COOPERATION 
SEC. 687. Funds available under the heading 
‘‘INTERNATIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION AND 
TRAINING’’ may only be made available for assistance 
for Indonesia if the Secretary of State submits a report 
to the Committees on Appropriations that describes— 
(1) Steps taken by the Indonesian government 
to deny promotion to and to remove from service 
military officers indicted for serious crimes; the ex-
tent to which the Indonesian Government is cooper-
ating with international efforts to bring current and 
past officials to justice; and that past and present 
Indonesian military officials are cooperating with do-
mestic inquiries into past abuses, including the 
forced disappearance and killing of student activists 
in 1998 and 1999; 
(2) The Indonesian government’s response to 
the report of the Commission for Reception, Truth 
and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste and the June 
2006 report of the report to the Secretary-General 
of the Commission of Experts to Review the Pros-
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ecution of Serious Violations of Human Rights in 
Timor-Leste in 1999; 
(3) Steps taken by the Indonesian government 
to implement and enforce the 2004 Indonesian law 
which requires the Indonesian military to divest 
itself of legal and illegal businesses before 2009; and 
(4) The extent to which the Indonesian govern-
ment has removed restrictions impending access to 
and travel within the provinces of Papua and West 
Irian Jaya by United Nations personnel, diplomats, 
journalists, international non-governmental organiza-
tion personnel and researchers, humanitarian and 
human rights workers and others. 
LIMITATION
ON
ASSISTANCE
TO
FOREIGN
COUNTRIES 
THAT
REFUSE
TO
EXTRADITE
TO
THE
UNITED 
STATES ANY INDIVIDUAL ACCUSED IN THE UNITED 
STATES OF KILLING A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER 
SEC. 688. None of the funds made available in this 
Act for the Department of State may be used to provide 
assistance to the central government of a country which 
has notified the Department of State of its refusal to ex-
tradite to the United States any individual indicted in the 
United States for killing a law enforcement officer, as 
specified in a United States extradition request. 
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GOVERNMENTS THAT HAVE FAILED TO PERMIT CERTAIN 
EXTRADITIONS 
SEC. 689. None of the funds made available in this 
Act for the Department of State, other than funds pro-
vided under the heading ‘‘INTERNATIONAL NAR-
COTICS CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT’’, 
may be used to provide assistance to the central govern-
ment of a country with which the United States has an 
extradition treaty and which government has notified the 
Department of State of its refusal to extradite to the 
United States any individual charged with a criminal of-
fense for which the maximum penalty is life imprisonment 
without the possibility of parole. 
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND BUDGET AND HIRING 
CEILINGS 
SEC. 690. The Secretary of the Treasury shall in-
struct the United States Executive Director at the Inter-
national Monetary Fund to use the voice of the United 
States to ensure that any loan, project, agreement, memo-
randum, instrument, plan or other program of the Inter-
national Monetary Fund does not penalize countries for 
increased government spending on healthcare or education 
by exempting such increases from national budget caps or 
restraints, hiring or wage bill ceilings or other limits im-
posed by the International Monetary Fund. 
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ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMS 
SEC. 691. (a) FUNDING.—Of the funds appropriated 
under the heading ‘‘DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE’’, 
not less than $501,000,000 shall be made available for 
programs and activities which directly protect biodiversity 
and promote clean energy. 
(b) CLIMATE CHANGE REPORT.—Not later than 60 
days after the date on which the President’s fiscal year 
2009 budget request is submitted to Congress, the Presi-
dent shall submit a report to the Committees on Appro-
priations describing in detail the following— 
(1) all Federal agency obligations and expendi-
tures, domestic and international, for climate change 
programs and activities in fiscal year 2009, includ-
ing an accounting of expenditures by agency with 
each agency identifying climate change activities and 
associated costs by line item as presented in the 
President’s Budget Appendix; and 
(2) all fiscal year 2007 obligations and esti-
mated expenditures, fiscal year 2008 estimated ex-
penditures and estimated obligations, and fiscal year 
2009 requested funds by the United States Agency 
for International Development, by country and cen-
tral program, for each of the following: 
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(A) to promote the transfer and deploy-
ment of a wide range of United States clean en-
ergy and energy efficiency technologies; 
(B) to assist in the measurement, moni-
toring, reporting, verification, and reduction of 
greenhouse gas emissions; 
(C) to promote carbon capture and seques-
tration measures; 
(D) to help meet such countries’ respon-
sibilities under the Framework Convention on 
Climate Change; and 
(E) to develop assessments of the vulner-
ability to impacts of climate change and mitiga-
tion and adaptation response strategies. 
(c) EXTRACTION OF NATURAL RESOURCES.—(1) The 
Secretary of the Treasury shall inform the managements 
of the international financial institutions and the public 
that it is the policy of the United States that any assist-
ance by such institutions (including but not limited to any 
loan, credit, grant, or guarantee) for the extraction and 
export of oil, gas, coal, timber, or other natural resource 
should not be provided unless the government of the coun-
try has in place or is taking the necessary steps to estab-
lish functioning systems for: 
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(A) accurately accounting for revenues and ex-
penditures in connection with the extraction and ex-
port of the type of natural resource to be extracted 
or exported; 
(B) the independent auditing of such accounts 
and the widespread public dissemination of the au-
dits; and 
(C) verifying government receipts against com-
pany payments including widespread dissemination 
of such payment information, and disclosing such 
documents as Host Government Agreements, Con-
cession Agreements, and bidding documents, allow-
ing in any such dissemination or disclosure for the 
redaction of, or exceptions for, information that is 
commercially proprietary or that would create com-
petitive disadvantage. 
(2) Not later than 180 days after the enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit a re-
port to the Committees on Appropriations describing, for 
each international financial institution, the amount and 
type of assistance provided, by country, for the extraction 
and export of oil, gas, coal, timber, or other national re-
source since September 30, 2005. 
UZBEKISTAN 
SEC. 692. Assistance may be provided to the central 
Government of Uzbekistan only if the Secretary of State 
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determines and reports to the Committees on Appropria-
tions that the Government of Uzbekistan is making sub-
stantial and continuing progress in meeting its commit-
ments under the ‘‘Declaration on the Strategic Partner-
ship and Cooperation Framework Between the Republic 
of Uzbekistan and the United States of America’’, includ-
ing respect for human rights, establishing a genuine multi- 
party system, and ensuring free and fair elections, free-
dom of expression, and the independence of the media, and 
that a credible international investigation of the May 31, 
2005, shootings in Andijan is underway with the support 
of the Government of Uzbekistan: Provided, That for the 
purposes of this section ‘‘assistance’’ shall include excess 
defense articles. 
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MINORITY RELIGIOUS FAITHS 
IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 
SEC. 693. None of the funds appropriated for assist-
ance under this Act may be made available for the Govern-
ment of the Russian Federation, after 180 days from the 
date of the enactment of this Act, unless the President 
determines and certifies in writing to the Committees on 
Appropriations that the Government of the Russian Fed-
eration has implemented no statute, executive order, regu-
lation or similar government action that would discrimi-
nate, or which has as its principal effect discrimination, 
against religious groups or religious communities in the 
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Russian Federation in violation of accepted international 
agreements on human rights and religious freedoms to 
which the Russian Federation is a party. 
WAR CRIMES IN AFRICA 
SEC. 694. (a) The Congress reaffirms its support for 
the efforts of the International Criminal Tribunal for 
Rwanda (ICTR) and the Special Court for Sierra Leone 
(SCSL) to bring to justice individuals responsible for war 
crimes and crimes against humanity in a timely manner. 
(b) Funds appropriated by this Act, including funds 
for debt restructuring, may be made available for assist-
ance to the central government of a country in which indi-
viduals indicted by ICTR and SCSL are credibly alleged 
to be living, if the Secretary of State determines and re-
ports to the Committees on Appropriations that such gov-
ernment is cooperating with ICTR and SCSL, including 
the surrender and transfer of indictees in a timely manner: 
Provided, That this subsection shall not apply to assist-
ance provided under section 551 of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961 or to project assistance under title II of this 
Act: Provided further, That the United States shall use 
its voice and vote in the United Nations Security Council 
to fully support efforts by ICTR and SCSL to bring to 
justice individuals indicted by such tribunals in a timely 
manner. 
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(c) The prohibition in subsection (b) may be waived 
on a country by country basis if the President determines 
that doing so is in the national security interest of the 
United States: Provided, That prior to exercising such 
waiver authority, the President shall submit a report to 
the Committees on Appropriations, in classified form if 
necessary, on: 
(1) the steps being taken to obtain the coopera-
tion of the government in surrendering the indictee 
in question to the court of jurisdiction; 
(2) a strategy, including a timeline, for bringing 
the indictee before such court; and 
(3) the justification for exercising the waiver 
authority. 
COMBATTING PIRACY OF UNITED STATES COPYRIGHTED 
MATERIALS 
SEC. 695. (a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—The Sec-
retary of State may carry out a program of activities to 
combat piracy in countries that are not members of the 
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development 
(OECD), including activities as follows: 
(1) The provision of equipment and training for 
law enforcement, including in the interpretation of 
intellectual property laws. 
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(2) The provision of training for judges and 
prosecutors, including in the interpretation of intel-
lectual property laws. 
(3) The provision of assistance in complying 
with obligations under applicable international trea-
ties and agreements on copyright and intellectual 
property. 
(b) CONSULTATION WITH WORLD INTELLECTUAL 
PROPERTY ORGANIZATION.—In carrying out the program 
authorized by subsection (a), the Secretary shall, to the 
maximum extent practicable, consult with and provide as-
sistance to the World Intellectual Property Organization 
in order to promote the integration of countries described 
in subsection (a) into the global intellectual property sys-
tem. 
(c) FUNDING.—Of the amount appropriated or other-
wise made available under the heading ‘‘INTER-
NATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL AND LAW EN-
FORCEMENT’’, $5,000,000 may be made available in 
fiscal year 2008 for the program authorized by subsection 
(a). 
OVERSIGHT OF IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION 
SEC. 696. (a) Section 3001 of the Emergency Supple-
mental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Recon-
struction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004 (Public Law 108– 
106; 117 Stat. 1238; 5 U.S.C. App., note to section 8G 
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of Public Law 95–452), as amended by section 1054(b) 
of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2007 (Public Law 109–364; 120 Stat. 
2397), section 2 of the Iraq Reconstruction Accountability 
Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–440), and section 3801 of 
the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recov-
ery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 
(Public Law 110–28) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (h)(1) by striking ‘‘pay rates.’’ 
and inserting ‘‘pay rates, and may exercise the au-
thorities of subsections (b) through (i) of section 
3161 of title 5, United States Code (without regard 
to subsection (a) of such section).’’; 
(2) in subsection (o)(1)(B) by striking ‘‘fiscal 
year 2006 or fiscal year 2007’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal 
years 2006 through 2008’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end of such section the fol-
lowing subsection: 
‘‘(p) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—For the purposes of 
carrying out the duties of the Inspector General, any 
United States funds appropriated or otherwise made avail-
able for fiscal years 2006 through 2008 for the reconstruc-
tion of Iraq, irrespective of the designation of such funds, 
shall be deemed to be amounts appropriated or otherwise 
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made available to the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction 
Fund.’’. 
(b) Section 1054(a) of Public Law 109–364 is 
amended by striking ‘‘fiscal year 2006’’ and inserting ‘‘fis-
cal years 2006 through 2008’’. 
UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS RENOVATION 
SEC. 697. It is the sense of the Congress that the 
amount of any loan for the renovation of the United Na-
tions headquarters building located in New York, New 
York, should not exceed $600,000,000: Provided, That if 
any loan exceeds $600,000,000, the Secretary of State 
shall notify the Congress of the current cost of the renova-
tion and cost containment measures. 
NEGLECTED DISEASES 
SEC. 698. Of the funds appropriated under the head-
ing ‘‘Child Survival and Health Programs Fund’’, not less 
than $18,000,000 shall be made available to support an 
integrated response to the control of neglected diseases in-
cluding intestinal parasites, schistosomiasis, lymphatic fil-
ariasis, onchocerciasis, trachoma and leprosy: Provided, 
That the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development shall consult with the Commit-
tees on Appropriations, representatives from the relevant 
international technical and nongovernmental organizations 
addressing the specific diseases, recipient countries, donor 
countries, the private sector, UNICEF and the World 
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Health Organization: (1) on the most effective uses of 
such funds to demonstrate the health and economic bene-
fits of such an approach; and (2) to develop a multilateral, 
integrated initiative to control these diseases that will en-
hance coordination and effectiveness and maximize the le-
verage of United States contributions with those of other 
donors: Provided further, That funds made available pur-
suant to this section shall be subject to the regular notifi-
cation procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 
ASSISTANCE FOR EGYPT 
SEC. 699. (a) FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING PRO-
GRAM.—Of the funds appropriated by this Act for Egypt 
under the heading ‘‘FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING 
PROGRAM’’, $200,000,000 shall not be made available 
for obligation until the Secretary of State certifies and re-
ports to the Committees on Appropriations that the Gov-
ernment of Egypt has taken concrete and measurable 
steps to— 
(1) enact and implement a new judicial author-
ity law that protects the independence of the judici-
ary; 
(2) review criminal procedures and train police 
leadership in modern policing to curb police abuses; 
and 
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