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parking fines and penalties and unpaid property taxes owed by 
the central government of such country shall be withheld from 
obligation for assistance for the central government of such country 
until the Secretary of State submits a certification to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations stating that such parking fines and penalties 
and unpaid property taxes are fully paid. 
(b) Funds withheld from obligation pursuant to subsection (a) 
may be made available for other programs or activities funded 
by this Act, after consultation with and subject to the regular 
notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations, pro-
vided that no such funds shall be made available for assistance 
for the central government of a foreign country that has not paid 
the total amount of the fully adjudicated parking fines and penalties 
and unpaid property taxes owed by such country. 
(c) Subsection (a) shall not include amounts that have been 
withheld under any other provision of law. 
(d)(1) The Secretary of State may waive the requirements set 
forth in subsection (a) with respect to parking fines and penalties 
no sooner than 60 days from the date of enactment of this Act, 
or at any time with respect to a particular country, if the Secretary 
determines that it is in the national interests of the United States 
to do so. 
(2) The Secretary of State may waive the requirements set 
forth in subsection (a) with respect to the unpaid property taxes 
if the Secretary of State determines that it is in the national 
interests of the United States to do so. 
(e) Not later than 6 months after the initial exercise of the 
waiver authority in subsection (d), the Secretary of State, after 
consultations with the City of New York, shall submit a report 
to the Committees on Appropriations describing a strategy, 
including a timetable and steps currently being taken, to collect 
the parking fines and penalties and unpaid property taxes and 
interest owed by nations receiving foreign assistance under this 
Act. 
(f) In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘fully adjudicated’’ includes circumstances 
in which the person to whom the vehicle is registered— 
(A)(i) has not responded to the parking violation sum-
mons; or 
(ii) has not followed the appropriate adjudication proce-
dure to challenge the summons; and 
(B) the period of time for payment of or challenge 
to the summons has lapsed. 
(2) The term ‘‘parking fines and penalties’’ means parking 
fines and penalties— 
(A) owed to— 
(i) the District of Columbia; or 
(ii) New York, New York; and 
(B) incurred during the period April 1, 1997, through 
September 30, 2008. 
(3) The term ‘‘unpaid property taxes’’ means the amount 
of unpaid taxes and interest determined to be owed by a foreign 
country on real property in the District of Columbia or New 
York, New York in a court order or judgment entered against 
such country by a court of the United States or any State 
or subdivision thereof.
H. R. 1105—372 
LANDMINES AND CLUSTER MUNITIONS 
SEC. 7056. (a) LANDMINES.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, demining equipment available to the United States 
Agency for International Development and the Department of State 
and used in support of the clearance of landmines and unexploded 
ordnance for humanitarian purposes may be disposed of on a grant 
basis in foreign countries, subject to such terms and conditions 
as the President may prescribe. 
(b) CLUSTER MUNITIONS.—No military assistance shall be fur-
nished for cluster munitions, no defense export license for cluster 
munitions may be issued, and no cluster munitions or cluster muni-
tions technology shall be sold or transferred, unless— 
(1) the submunitions of the cluster munitions have a 99 
percent or higher functioning rate; and 
(2) the agreement applicable to the assistance, transfer, 
or sale of the cluster munitions or cluster munitions technology 
specifies that the cluster munitions will only be used against 
clearly defined military targets and will not be used where 
civilians are known to be present. 
MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION 
SEC. 7057. (a) The Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium 
Challenge Corporation shall, not later than 45 days after enactment 
of this Act, submit to the Committee on Appropriations a report 
on the proposed uses, on a country-by-country basis, of all funds 
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Millennium Challenge Corpora-
tion’’ in this Act or prior Acts making appropriations for the Depart-
ment of State, foreign operations, and related programs projected 
to be obligated and expended in fiscal year 2009 and subsequent 
fiscal years. 
(b) The report required in paragraph (a) shall be updated 
on a semi-annual basis and shall include, at a minimum, a descrip-
tion of— 
(1) compacts in development, including the status of nego-
tiations and the approximate range of value of the proposed 
compact; 
(2) compacts in implementation, including the projected 
expenditure and disbursement of compact funds during fiscal 
year 2009 and subsequent fiscal years as determined by the 
country compact; 
(3) threshold country programs in development, including 
the approximate range of value of the threshold country agree-
ment; 
(4) major programmatic changes to existing compacts 
funded by this Act or prior Acts making appropriations for 
the Department of State, foreign operations, and related pro-
grams; 
(5) threshold country programs in implementation; and 
(6) use of administrative funds. 
(c) The Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge 
Corporation shall notify the Committees on Appropriations not later 
than 15 days prior to signing any new country compact or new 
threshold country program; terminating or suspending any country 
compact or threshold country program; or commencing negotiations 
for any new compact or threshold country program.
H. R. 1105—373 
LIMITATION ON RESIDENCE EXPENSES 
SEC. 7058. Of the funds appropriated or made available pursu-
ant to title II of this Act, not to exceed $100,500 shall be for 
official residence expenses of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development during the current fiscal year: Provided, That 
appropriate steps shall be taken to assure that, to the maximum 
extent possible, United States-owned foreign currencies are utilized 
in lieu of dollars. 
UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 
MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 7059. (a) AUTHORITY.—Up to $81,000,000 of the funds 
made available in title III of this Act to carry out the provisions 
of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, including funds 
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia 
and Central Asia’’, may be used by the United States Agency 
for International Development (USAID) to hire and employ individ-
uals in the United States and overseas on a limited appointment 
basis pursuant to the authority of sections 308 and 309 of the 
Foreign Service Act of 1980. 
(b) RESTRICTIONS.— 
(1) The number of individuals hired in any fiscal year 
pursuant to the authority contained in subsection (a) may not 
exceed 175. 
(2) The authority to hire individuals contained in subsection 
(a) shall expire on September 30, 2010. 
(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 Europe, Eur-
asia and Central Asia’’, are eliminated. 
(d) PRIORITY SECTORS.—In exercising the authority of this sec-
tion, primary emphasis shall be placed on enabling 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 respon-
sibilities primarily relate. Funds made available to carry out this 
section may be transferred to, and merged with, funds appropriated 
by this Act in title II under the heading ‘‘Operating Expenses’’. 
(g) FOREIGN SERVICE LIMITED EXTENSIONS.—Individuals hired 
and employed by USAID, with funds made available in this Act 
or prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of State, 
foreign operations, and related programs, pursuant to the authority 
of section 309 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, may be extended 
for a period of up to 4 years notwithstanding the limitation set 
forth in such section.
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(h) JUNIOR OFFICER PLACEMENT AUTHORITY.—Of the funds 
made available in subsection (a), USAID may use, in addition 
to funds otherwise available for such purposes, up to $15,000,000 
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 
compensated with funds appropriated to carry out part I of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, including funds appropriated under 
the heading ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’. 
(i) DISASTER SURGE CAPACITY.—Funds appropriated under title 
III of this Act to carry out part I of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961, including funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Assistance 
for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’, 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 USAID whose primary responsibility is to carry out programs 
in response to natural disasters. 
(j) TECHNICAL ADVISORS.—Up to $13,500,000 of the funds made 
available by this Act in title III for assistance under the heading 
‘‘Global Health and Child Survival’’, may be used to reimburse 
United States Government agencies, agencies of State governments, 
institutions of higher learning, and private and voluntary organiza-
tions for the full cost of individuals (including for the personal 
services of such individuals) detailed or assigned to, or contracted 
by, as the case may be, USAID for the purpose of carrying out 
activities under that heading: Provided, That up to $3,500,000 
of the funds made available by this Act for assistance under the 
heading ‘‘Development Assistance’’ may be used to reimburse such 
agencies, institutions, and organizations for such costs of such 
individuals carrying out other development assistance activities. 
(k) PERSONAL SERVICES CONTRACTORS.—Funds appropriated by 
this Act to carry out chapter 1 of part I, chapter 4 of part II, 
and section 667 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and title 
II of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 
1954, may be used by USAID to employ up to 25 personal services 
contractors in the United States, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, for the purpose of providing direct, interim support 
for new or expanded overseas programs and activities managed 
by the agency until permanent direct hire personnel are hired 
and trained: Provided, That not more than 10 of such contractors 
shall be assigned to any bureau or office: Provided further, That 
such funds appropriated to carry out title II of the Agricultural 
Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, may be made 
available only for personal services contractors assigned to the 
Office of Food for Peace. 
(l) RECRUITMENT STRATEGY.—Not later than December 31, 
2009, the USAID Administrator, after consulting with the Secre-
taries of Defense, Treasury, Agriculture, Interior, Energy, and 
Health and Human Services, the Director of the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, and the heads of other relevant Federal depart-
ments and agencies, shall submit to the Committees on Appropria-
tions a recruitment strategy for current and former employees 
from such departments and agencies who possess skills and/or 
overseas experience which would enhance USAID’s capacity to carry 
out its mission: Provided, That funds made available under the