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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. 589. 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.
SEC. 590. 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.
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PROCUREMENT AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT REFORM
SEC. 591. (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-
curement, and financial management controls in re-
cipient countries.
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(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.
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, 
mADA-
GASCAR, AND southern Africa, to remain available until
expended: Provided, 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 appropriated under this heading, the Adminis-
trator of the Agency for International Development shall
provide the Committees on Appropriations with a detailed
report containing the amount of the proposed obligation
and a description of the programs and projects, on a coun-
try-by-country basis, to be funded with such amount: Pro-
vided further, That up to $12,000,000 of the funds appro-
priated under this heading may be charged to finance obli-
gations for which appropriations available under chapter
1 and 10 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
were initially charged for assistance for rehabilitation and
reconstruction for Mozambique, Madagascar, and south-
ern Africa: Provided further, That of the funds appro-
priated under this heading, up to $5,000,000 may be used
for administrative expenses, including auditing costs, of
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the Agency for International Development associated with
the assistance furnished under this heading: Provided fur-
ther, 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’’.
Union Calendar No. 404
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4811
[Report No. 106–720]
A BILL
Making appropriations for foreign operations, ex-
port financing, and related programs for the fis-
cal year ending September 30, 2001, and for
other purposes.
JULY 10, 2000
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on
the State of the Union and ordered to be printed