GENERAL PROVISIONS

GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 101. None of the funds herein appropriated (other than funds appropriated for “International organizations and programs” and “Indus Basin Development Fund”) shall be used to finance the construction of any new flood control, reclamation, or other water or related land resource project or program which has not met the standards and criteria used in determining the feasibility of flood control, reclamation, and other water and related land resource programs and projects proposed for construction within the United States of America as per memorandum of the President dated May 15, 1962. Sec. 102. Except for the appropriations entitled “Contingency fund”, and appropriations of funds to be used for loans, not more than 20 per centum of any appropriation item made available by this title shall be obligated and/or reserved during the last month of availability. Sec. 103. None of the funds herein appropriated nor any of the counterpart funds generated as a result of assistance hereunder or any prior Act shall be used to pay pensions, annuities, retirement pay, or adjusted service compensation for any persons heretofore or hereafter serving in the armed forces of any recipient country. Sec. 104. None of the funds appropriated or made available pursuant to this Act for carrying out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may be used for making payments on any contract for procurement to which the United States is a party entered into after the date of enactment of this Act which does not contain a provision authorizing the termination of such contract for the convenience of the United States. Sec. 165. None of the funds appropriated or made available under this Act for carrying out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may be used to make payments with respect to any capital project financed by loans or grants from the United States where the United States has not directly approved the terms of the contracts and the firms to provide engineering, procurement, and construction services on such projects. Sec. 106. Of the funds appropriated or made available pursuant to this Act, not more than $12,000,000 may be used during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, in carrying out research under section 241 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended. Sec. 107. None of the funds appropriated or made available pursuant to this Act for carrying out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may be used to pay in whole or in part, any assessments, arrearages, or dues of any member of the United Nations. Sec. 108. None of the funds made available by this Act for carrying out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may be obligated for financing, in whole or in part, the direct costs of any contract for the construction of facilities and installations in any under-developed country, unless the President shall have promulgated regulations designed to assure, to the maximum extent consistent with the national interest and the avoidance of excessive costs to the United States, that none of the funds made available by this Act and thereafter obligated shall be used to finance the direct costs under such87 Stat. 1053 contracts for construction work performed by persons other than qualified nationals of the recipient country or qualified citizens of the United States: Provided, however, That the President may waive the application of this section if it is important to the national interest. Sec. 109. None of the funds appropriated or made available pursuant to this Act for carrying out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may be used to finance the procurement of iron and steel products for use in Vietnam containing any component acquired by the producer of the commodity, in the form in which imported into the country of production, from sources other than the United States. Sec. 110. None of the funds contained in title I of this Act may be used to carry out the provisions of sections 209(d) and 251(h) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended. Sec. 111. None of the funds appropriated or made available pursuant to this Act shall be used to provide assistance to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). Sec. 112. None of the funds appropriated or made available pursuant to this Act, and no local currencies generated as a result of assistance furnished under this Act, may be used for the support of police, or prison construction and administration within South Vietnam, for training, including computer training, of South Vietnamese with respect to police, criminal, or prison matters, or for computers or computer parts for use for South Vietnam with respect to police, criminal, or prison matters. Sec. 113. It is the sense of the Congress that excess foreign currencies on deposit with the United States Treasury, having been acquired without the payment of dollars, should be used to underwrite local costs of United States foreign assistance programs to the extent to which they are available. Therefore, none of the funds appropriated by this title shall be used to acquire, directly or indirectly, currencies or credits of a foreign country from non-United States Treasury sources when there is on deposit in the United States Treasury excess currencies of that country’ having been acquired without payment of dollars. Sec. 114. None of the funds made available under this Act for “Food and Nutrition, Development Assistance,” “Population Planning and Health, Development Assistance,” “Education and Human Resources Development. Development Assistance.” “Selected Development Problems, Development Assistance,” “Selected Countries and Organizations, Development Assistance,” “International Organizations and Programs,” “American Schools and Hospitals Abroad,” “International Narcotics Control,” “Indochina postwar reconstruction assistance.” “Security supporting assistance,” “Military” assistance,” or “Migration and refugee assistance” shall be available for obligation for activities, programs, projects, countries, or other operations unless the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives are previously notified five days in advance.