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106th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2606
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
August 4, 1999
Ordered to be printed with the amendments of the Senate numbered
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AN ACT
Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and
related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
(1)<DELETED>That 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 purposes, namely:
<DELETED>TITLE I--EXPORT AND INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE</DELETED>
<DELETED>export-import bank of the united states</DELETED>
<DELETED> The Export-Import Bank of the United States is authorized
to make such expenditures within the limits of funds and borrowing
authority available to such corporation, and in accordance with law,
and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal
year limitations, as provided by section 104 of the Government
Corporation Control Act, as may be necessary in carrying out the
program for the current fiscal year for such corporation: Provided,
That none of the funds available during the current fiscal year may be
used to make expenditures, contracts, or commitments for the export of
nuclear equipment, fuel, or technology to any country other than a
nuclear-weapon state as defined in Article IX of the Treaty on the Non-
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons eligible to receive economic or
military assistance under this Act that has detonated a nuclear
explosive after the date of the enactment of this Act.</DELETED>
<DELETED>subsidy appropriation</DELETED>
<DELETED> For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees, insurance,
and tied-aid grants as authorized by section 10 of the Export-Import
Bank Act of 1945, as amended, $759,000,000 to remain available until
September 30, 2003: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of
modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That such sums
shall remain available until September 30, 2018 for the disbursement of
direct loans, loan guarantees, insurance and tied-aid grants obligated
in fiscal years 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003: Provided further, That none
of the funds appropriated by this Act or any prior Act appropriating
funds for foreign operations, export financing, or related programs for
tied-aid credits or grants may be used for any other purpose except
through the regular notification procedures of the Committees on
Appropriations: Provided further, That funds appropriated by this
paragraph are made available notwithstanding section 2(b)(2) of the
Export Import Bank Act of 1945, in connection with the purchase or
lease of any product by any East European country, any Baltic State or
any agency or national thereof.</DELETED>
<DELETED>administrative expenses</DELETED>
<DELETED> For administrative expenses to carry out the direct and
guaranteed loan and insurance programs (to be computed on an accrual
basis), including hire of passenger motor vehicles and services as
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and not to exceed $25,000 for official
reception and representation expenses for members of the Board of
Directors, $55,000,000: Provided, That necessary expenses (including
special services performed on a contract or fee basis, but not
including other personal services) in connection with the collection of
moneys owed the Export-Import Bank, repossession or sale of pledged
collateral or other assets acquired by the Export-Import Bank in
satisfaction of moneys owed the Export-Import Bank, or the
investigation or appraisal of any property, or the evaluation of the
legal or technical aspects of any transaction for which an application
for a loan, guarantee or insurance commitment has been made, shall be
considered nonadministrative expenses for the purposes of this heading:
Provided further, That, notwithstanding subsection (b) of section 117
of the Export Enhancement Act of 1992, subsection (a) thereof shall
remain in effect until October 1, 2000.</DELETED>
<DELETED>overseas private investment corporation</DELETED>
<DELETED>noncredit account</DELETED>
<DELETED> The Overseas Private Investment Corporation is authorized
to make, without regard to fiscal year limitations, as provided by 31
U.S.C. 9104, such expenditures and commitments within the limits of
funds available to it and in accordance with law as may be necessary:
Provided, That the amount available for administrative expenses to
carry out the credit and insurance programs (including an amount for
official reception and representation expenses which shall not exceed
$35,000) shall not exceed $35,000,000: Provided further, That project-
specific transaction costs, including direct and indirect costs
incurred in claims settlements, and other direct costs associated with
services provided to specific investors or potential investors pursuant
to section 234 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, shall not be
considered administrative expenses for the purposes of this
heading.</DELETED>
<DELETED>program account</DELETED>
<DELETED> For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, $20,500,000,
as authorized by section 234 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to
be derived by transfer from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Noncredit Account: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of
modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That such sums
shall be available for direct loan obligations and loan guaranty
commitments incurred or made during fiscal years 2000 and 2001:
Provided further, That such sums shall remain available through fiscal
year 2008 for the disbursement of direct and guaranteed loans obligated
in fiscal year 2000, and through fiscal year 2009 for the disbursement
of direct and guaranteed loans obligated in fiscal year 2001: Provided
further, That in addition, such sums as may be necessary for
administrative expenses to carry out the credit program may be derived
from amounts available for administrative expenses to carry out the
credit and insurance programs in the Overseas Private Investment
Corporation Noncredit Account and merged with said account: Provided
further, That funds made available under this heading or in prior
appropriations Acts that are available for the cost of financing under
section 234 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, shall be available
for purposes of section 234(g) of such Act, to remain available until
expended.</DELETED>
<DELETED>Funds Appropriated to the President</DELETED>
<DELETED>trade and development agency</DELETED>
<DELETED> For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of
section 661 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, $44,000,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2001: Provided, That the Trade and
Development Agency may receive reimbursements from corporations and
other entities for the costs of grants for feasibility studies and
other project planning services, to be deposited as an offsetting
collection to this account and to be available for obligation until
September 30, 2001, for necessary expenses under this paragraph:
Provided further, That such reimbursements shall not cover, or be
allocated against, direct or indirect administrative costs of the
agency.</DELETED>
<DELETED>TITLE II--BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE</DELETED>
<DELETED>Funds Appropriated to the President</DELETED>
<DELETED> For expenses necessary to enable the President to carry
out the provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and for other
purposes, to remain available until September 30, 2000, unless
otherwise specified herein, as follows:</DELETED>
<DELETED>agency for international development</DELETED>
<DELETED>child survival and disease programs fund</DELETED>
<DELETED> For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of
chapters 1 and 10 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, for
child survival, basic education, assistance to combat tropical and
other diseases, and related activities, in addition to funds otherwise
available for such purposes, $680,000,000 (increased by $5,000,000), to
remain available until expended: Provided, That this amount shall be
made available for such activities as: (1) immunization programs; (2)
oral rehydration programs; (3) health and nutrition programs, and
related education programs, which address the needs of mothers and
children; (4) water and sanitation programs; (5) assistance for
displaced and orphaned children; (6) programs for the prevention,
treatment, and control of, and research on, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS,
polio, malaria and other diseases; and (7) up to $98,000,000 for basic
education programs for children: Provided further, That none of the
funds appropriated under this heading may be made available for
nonproject assistance for health and child survival programs, except
that funds may be made available for such assistance for ongoing health
programs.</DELETED>
<DELETED>development assistance</DELETED>
<DELETED>(including transfer of funds)</DELETED>
<DELETED> For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of
sections 103 through 106, and chapter 10 of part I of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961, title V of the International Security and
Development Cooperation Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-533) and the
provisions of section 401 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969,
$1,201,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2001: Provided,
That of the amount appropriated under this heading, up to $5,000,000
may be made available for and apportioned directly to the Inter-
American Foundation: Provided further, That of the amount appropriated
under this heading, up to $14,400,000 may be made available for the
African Development Foundation and shall be apportioned directly to
that agency: Provided further, That none of the funds made available in
this Act nor any unobligated balances from prior appropriations may be
made available to any organization or program which, as determined by
the President of the United States, supports or participates in the
management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary
sterilization: Provided further, That none of the funds made available
under this heading may be used to pay for the performance of abortion
as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to
practice abortions; and that in order to reduce reliance on abortion in
developing nations, funds shall be available only to voluntary family
planning projects which offer, either directly or through referral to,
or information about access to, a broad range of family planning
methods and services, and that any such voluntary family planning
project shall meet the following requirements: (1) service providers or
referral agents in the project shall not implement or be subject to
quotas, or other numerical targets, of total number of births, number
of family planning acceptors, or acceptors of a particular method of
family planning (this provision shall not be construed to include the
use of quantitative estimates or indicators for budgeting and planning
purposes); (2) the project shall not include payment of incentives,
bribes, gratuities, or financial reward to: (A) an individual in
exchange for becoming a family planning acceptor; or (B) program
personnel for achieving a numerical target or quota of total number of
births, number of family planning acceptors, or acceptors of a
particular method of family planning; (3) the project shall not deny
any right or benefit, including the right of access to participate in
any program of general welfare or the right of access to health care,
as a consequence of any individual's decision not to accept family
planning services; (4) the project shall provide family planning
acceptors comprehensible information on the health benefits and risks
of the method chosen, including those conditions that might render the
use of the method inadvisable and those adverse side effects known to
be consequent to the use of the method; and (5) the project shall
ensure that experimental contraceptive drugs and devices and medical
procedures are provided only in the context of a scientific study in
which participants are advised of potential risks and benefits; and,
not less than 60 days after the date on which the Administrator of the
United States Agency for International Development determines that
there has been a violation of the requirements contained in paragraph
(1), (2), (3), or (5) of this proviso, or a pattern or practice of
violations of the requirements contained in paragraph (4) of this
proviso, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on
International Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives and to the Committee on Foreign Relations and
the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, a report containing a
description of such violation and the corrective action taken by the
Agency: Provided further, That in awarding grants for natural family
planning under section 104 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 no
applicant shall be discriminated against because of such applicant's
religious or conscientious commitment to offer only natural family
planning; and, additionally, all such applicants shall comply with the
requirements of the previous proviso: Provided further, That for
purposes of this or any other Act authorizing or appropriating funds
for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs, the
term ``motivate'', as it relates to family planning assistance, shall
not be construed to prohibit the provision, consistent with local law,
of information or counseling about all pregnancy options: Provided
further, That nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to alter any
existing statutory prohibitions against abortion under section 104 of
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided further, That,
notwithstanding section 109 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, of
the funds appropriated under this heading in this Act, and of the
unobligated balances of funds previously appropriated under this
heading, $2,500,000 may be transferred to ``International Organizations
and Programs'' for a contribution to the International Fund for
Agricultural Development (IFAD): Provided further, That none of the
funds appropriated under this heading may be made available for any
activity which is in contravention to the Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna (CITES): Provided
further, That, of the funds made available by this Act for the
``Microenterprise Initiative'' (including any local currencies made
available for the purposes of the Initiative), not less than 50 percent
of the funds used for microcredit should be made available for support
of programs providing loans of less than $300 to very poor people,
particularly women, or for institutional support of organizations
primarily engaged in making such loans.</DELETED>
<DELETED>private and voluntary organizations</DELETED>
<DELETED> None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available
by this Act for development assistance may be made available to any
United States private and voluntary organization, except any
cooperative development organization, which obtains less than 20
percent of its total annual funding for international activities from
sources other than the United States Government: Provided, That the
Administrator of the Agency for International Development may, on a
case-by-case basis, waive the restriction contained in this paragraph,
after taking into account the effectiveness of the overseas development
activities of the organization, its level of volunteer support, its
financial viability and stability, and the degree of its dependence for
its financial support on the agency.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Funds appropriated or otherwise made available under title
II of this Act should be made available to private and voluntary
organizations at a level which is at least equivalent to the level
provided in fiscal year 1995.</DELETED>
<DELETED>international disaster assistance</DELETED>
<DELETED> For necessary expenses for international disaster relief,
rehabilitation, and reconstruction assistance pursuant to section 491
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, $200,880,000, to
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