notification requirements

notification requirements Sec. 523. For the purposes of providing the Executive Branch with the necessary administrative flexibility, none of the funds made available under this Act for “Agriculture, rural development, and nutrition, Development Assistance”, “Population, Development Assistance”, “Child Survival Fund”, “Health, Development Assistance”, “International AIDS Prevention and Control Program”, “Education and human resources development, Development Assistance”, “Private Sector, environment, and energy, Development Assistance”, “Science and technology, Development Assistance”, “Sub-Saharan Africa, Development Assistance”, ‘International organizations and programs”, “American schools and hospitals abroad”, “Trade and development program”, “International narcotics control”, “Economic support fund ”, “Peacekeeping operations”, “Operating expenses of the Agency for International Development”, “Operating expenses of the Agency for International Development Office of Inspector General”, “Anti-terrorism assistance”, “Foreign Military Financing Program”, “International military education and training”, “Inter-American Foundation”, “African Development Foundation”, “Peace Corps”, or “Migration and refugee assistance”, shall be available for obligation for activities, programs, projects, type of materiel assistance, countries, or other operation not justified or in excess of the amount justified to the Appropriations Committees for obligation under any of these specific headings for the current fiscal year unless the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress are previously notified fifteen days in advance: Provided, That the President shall not enter into any commitment of funds appropriated for the purposes of section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act for the provision of major defense equipment, other than conventional ammunition, or other major defense items defined to be aircraft, ships, missiles, or combat vehicles, not previously justified to Congress or 20 per centum in excess of the quantities justified to Congress unless the Committees on Appropriations are notified fifteen days in advance of such commitment: Provided further, That this section shall not apply to any reprogramming for an activity, program, or project under chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 of less than 20 per centum of the amount previously justified to the Congress for obligation for such activity, program, or project for the current fiscal year.