Agency for International Development

Agency for International Development development assistance fund For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of sections 103 through 106 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, $1,037,480,000, of which amount— (a) not less than $80,000,000 shall be made available for activities relating to research on, and the treatment and control of, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in developing countries of which not less than $34,000,000 shall be made available directly to the World Health Organization for its use in financing the Global Program on AIDS (including activities implemented by the Pan American Health Organization), and not less than $1,000,000 shall be made available to UNICEF for AIDS-related activities; (b) not less than $5,000,000 shall be made available for new development projects of private entities and cooperatives for dairy development; (c) not less than $25,000,000 shall be made available for the Vitamin A Deficiency Program and activities relating to iodine deficiency and other micro-nutrients, of which amount not less than $13,000,000 shall be made available for the Vitamin A Deficiency Program; (d) not less than $225,000 shall be made available to support continued United States participation in the Associate Professional Officers Program of the international food agencies; (e) not less than $1,000,000 shall be made available for private voluntary organizations to be used to finance operations for blind children; (f) not less than $10,000,000 shall be made available for cooperative projects among the United States, Israel, and developing countries, of which not less than $5,000,000 shall be made available for the Cooperative Development Program, pot less than $2,500,000 shall be made available for cooperative development research projects, and not less than $2,500,000 shall be made available for cooperative projects among the United States and Israel and the countries of Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, and the independent states of the former Soviet Union; (g) not less than $5,000,000 shall be made available for the Central and Latin American Rural Electrification Support project; (h) not less than $20,000,000 shall be made available for the International Student Exchange Program (for the Cooperative Association of States for Scholarships and the East Central European Scholarship Program), of which $3,000,000 shall be available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for students from Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia; (i) not less than $20,000,000 shall be available only for donations of fuel, construction materials, portable heating units, dairy products, and wheat and other urgently needed food for the peoples of Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia and Kosovo, of which amount not less than $5,000,000 shall be available only for Kosovo. Such assistance shall be distributed through nongovernmental organizations and private voluntary organizations; and 106 STAT. 1639 (j) up to $10,000,000 shall be available for preventive services to include breast and prostate cancer screenings. child survival and education Of the funds appropriated under the headings in this title under “Agency for International Development”— (1) not less than a total of $275,000,000 shall be made available for programs in support of child survival activities: Provided, That such activities may include any assistance provided to meet the special needs of displaced children; and (2) not less than a total of $135,000,000 shall be made available for programs in support of basic education activities, including early childhood education, primary and secondary education, teacher training, and literacy training for adults. population, development assistance For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 104(b), $350,000,000: Provided, 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: Provided further, That in awarding grants for natural family planning under section 104 of the Foreign Assistance Act 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 nothing in this subsection shall be construed to alter any existing statutory prohibitions against abortion under section 104 of the Foreign Assistance Act: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, not less than 65 per centum shall be made available for the Office of Population of the Agency for International Development: Provided further, That the Agency for International Development shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations no later than March 1, 1993 setting forth the agency’s strategy for having a global impact on the international population problem: Provided further, That as part of its annual Congressional Presentation Document for fiscal year 1994. the Agency for International Development shall separately include an agency-wide budget for family planning programs for which development assistance funds are requested for that fiscal year: Provided further, That funds appropriated under this heading for family planning purposes shall not be reduced by a proportion greater than the Development Assistance Fund in order to comply with requirements to provide assistance from funds appropriated to carry out chapter 1 of part I or to carry out part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided further, That in addition to funds 106 STAT. 1640otherwise available for such purposes, of the funds appropriated under this heading $800,000 only shall be used for the administration and planning of family planning assistance programs in addition to operating expense funds otherwise allocated for such office. development fund for africa For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of chapter 10 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, $800,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1994: Provided, That not less than $50,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available to assist activities supported by the Southern Africa Development Coordination Conference: Provided further, That funds appropriated under this heading which are made available for activities supported by the Southern Africa Development Coordination Conference shall be made available notwithstanding section 518 of this Act and section 620(q) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided further, That $3,500,000 only of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be used for administrative and planning costs associated with programs under this heading in addition to operating expense funds otherwise allocated to the Agency’s Bureau for Africa: Provided further, That up to $15,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be transferred to “International Organizations and Programs” and shall be made available only for the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s Special Programme for Sub-Saharan African Countries Affected by Drought and Desertification: Provided further, That such funds shall be transferred and made available pursuant to the previous proviso only if, by June 30, 1994, contributions by donors (including the proposed United States contribution) are sufficient to allow the agreement on the second replenishment of the Special Programme to come into force: Provided further, That up to $5,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading may be made available for rural electrification in sub-Saharan Africa. subsaharan africa disaster assistance For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of chapters 1 and 10, $100,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That such funds shall be made available for disaster relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction assistance for sub-Saharan Africa, notwithstanding any other provision of law, and are in addition to funds otherwise available for such purposes: Provided further, That not less than $25,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available for Somalia: Provided further, That funds appropriated under this heading may be used for other activities for sub-Saharan Africa consistent with the purposes of chapters 1 and 10 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 in the event that such funds are no longer needed for disaster relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction purposes: Provided further, That in the event that circumstances make unlikely the effective use of any of the funds earmarked under this heading for Somalia, such funds may be used for assistance for other sub-Saharan African countries for any of the purposes contained in this paragraph. 106 STAT. 1641 zaire None of the funds appropriated by this Act to carry out chapters 1 and 10 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 shall be transferred to the Government of Zaire: Provided, That this provision shall not be construed to prohibit nongovernmental organizations from working with appropriate ministries or departments of the Government of Zaire. assistance for displaced children Of the aggregate of the funds appropriated by this Act to carry out part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, not less than $10,000,000 shall be made available for programs and activities to address the health, education, nutrition, and other special needs of displaced children who have been abandoned or orphaned as a result of poverty, or manmade or natural disaster, of which not less than $2,000,000 shall be made available for assistance for street children: Provided, That assistance under this heading shall be made available notwithstanding any other provision of law. humanitarian assistance for cambodian children Of the aggregate of the funds appropriated by this Act to carry out part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, not less than $5,000,000 shall be made available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, to provide humanitarian assistance through international relief agencies and United States private and voluntary organizations to children within Cambodia: Provided, That none of the funds made available under this heading may be made available, directly or indirectly, for the Khmer Rouge. assistance for victims of war Of the aggregate of the funds appropriated by this Act to carry out part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, not less than $5,000,000 shall be made available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for medical and related assistance for civilians who have been injured as a result of civil strife and warfare, including the provision of prostheses and vocational rehabilitation and training, and assistance for the blind. women in development In recognition that the full participation of women in, and the full contribution of women to, the development process are essential to achieving economic growth, a higher quality of life, and sustainable development in developing countries, not less than $10,000,000 of the funds appropriated by this Act to carry out part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, in addition to funds otherwise available for such purposes, shall be used to encourage and promote the participation and integration of women as equal partners in the development process in developing countries, of which not less than $6,000,000 shall be made available as matching funds to support the activities of the Agency for International Development’s field missions to integrate women into their programs: Provided, That the Agency for International Development shall seek to ensure that country strategies, projects, and programs 106 STAT. 1642are designed so that the percentage of women participants will be demonstrably increased. assistance for displaced burmese Of the funds appropriated under the heading “Economic Support Fund”, not less than $1,000,000 shall be made available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for assistance for Burmese, including students, who are displaced as a result of civil conflict and who are living in Burma or Thailand. private and voluntary organizations 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 per centum of its total annual funding for international activities from sources other than the United States Government: Provided, That the requirements of the provisions of section 123(g) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the provisions on private and voluntary organizations in title II of the “Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1985” (as enacted in Public Law 98–473) shall be superseded by the provisions of this section. appropriate technology Of the aggregate of the funds appropriated by this Act to carry out chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, not less than $1,000,000 shall be available for Appropriate Technology International: Provided, That these funds shall be in addition to $3,000,000 in funds available to Appropriate Technology International under its existing cooperative agreement with the Agency for International Development: Provided further, That Appropriate Technology International shall qualify, along with any cooperative development organization, for development assistance funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act for United States private and voluntary organizations. humanitarian assistance for romania Of the aggregate of the funds appropriated by this Act to carry out chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, not less than $4,500,000 shall be made available, notwithstanding any provision of law which restricts assistance to foreign countries, for humanitarian assistance for Romania. Of this amount— (1) not less than $1,500,000 shall be made available for activities related to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), and other health and child survival activities particularly for the care and treatment of abandoned children, including the provision of improved facilities, food, medicine, and training of personnel; (2) not less than $1,000,000 shall be made available for activities related to facilitating family reunification, foster care and adoption, and training of adoption and child welfare specialists; and (3) not less than $2,000,000 shall be made available for family planning assistance, subject to the following: 106 STAT. 1643 (A) The prohibitions contained in section 104(f) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and section 534 of this Act (relating to prohibitions on funding for abortion as a method of family planning, coercive abortion, and involuntary sterilization) shall be applicable to funds made available under this paragraph. (B) Any recipient of funds under this paragraph shall be required to maintain them in a separate account and not commingle them with any other funds. (C) Each agreement entered into by the United States to obligate funds made available under this paragraph shall expressly state that the full amount granted by such agreement will be refunded to the United States if any United States funds are used for any family planning program in a country other than Romania, or for abortion services, involuntary sterilization, or coercive activities of any kind. private sector loans program account For the cost of direct loans and loan guarantees, $4,057,000, as authorized by section 108 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended: Provided, That such costs shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That these funds are available to subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans and total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $81,319,000. In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $1,347,000, to remain available until expended, all of which may be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for Operating Expenses of the Agency for International Development. american schools and hospitals abroad For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 214, $30,000,000. international disaster assistance For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 491, $48,965,000, to remain available until expended. payment to the foreign service retirement and disability fund For payment to the “Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund”, as authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1980, $42,677,000. operating expenses of the agency for international development For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 667, $512,000,000: Provided, That in order to effectively monitor its program for the West Bank and Gaza, the Agency for International Development shall station at least one professional at the Consulate General in Jerusalem and at least one professional at the United States Embassy in Tel Aviv: Provided further, That 106 STAT. 1644the Agency for International Development shall not designate drivers and cars or provide portal-to-portal transportation service for the Administrator and Deputy Administrator: Provided further, That the Agency for International Development shall use Pakistani program funds to pay the severance costs of the agency’s foreign service nationals. operating expenses of the agency for international development office of inspector general For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 667, $39,316,000, which sum shall be available only for the operating expenses of the Office of the Inspector General notwithstanding section 451 or 614 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or any other provision of law: Provided, That except as may be required by an emergency evacuation affecting the United States diplomatic missions of which they are a component element, none of the funds in this Act, or any other Act, may be used to relocate the overseas Regional Offices of the Inspector General to a location within the United States without the express approval of the Inspector General: Provided further, That the total number of positions authorized for the Office of Inspector General in Washington and overseas shall be not less than two hundred and fifty-one at September 30, 1993: Provided further, That for purposes of economy and efficiency and to preclude duplication among executive Departments and agencies with program responsibilities for providing economic assistance to Eastern Europe and the new independent states of the former Soviet Union, the inspector general responsibility (as set forth in the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended) over the field activities of such programs shall, subject to the concurrence of such Departments and agencies, be the responsibility of the Office of the Inspector General of the Agency for International Development: Provided further, That not less than $600,000 of the funds appropriated under the heading “Assistance for the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union” shall be made available for the Office of the Inspector General of the Agency for International Development to carry out audit and other responsibilities with regard to assistance programs for such new independent states: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under this heading may be used to subsidize or pay the cost of recreational or health club activities for employees of the Office of the Inspector General. housing guaranty program account For the subsidy cost, as defined in section 13201 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, of guaranteed loans authorized by sections 221 and 222 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, $16,407,000: Provided, That these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $150,000,000: Provided further, That these funds are available to subsidize loan principal, 100 percent of which shall be guaranteed, pursuant to the authority of such sections: Provided further, That the President shall enter into commitments to guarantee such loans in the full amount provided under this heading, subject to the availability of qualified applicants for such guarantees. In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out guaranteed loan programs, $8,407,000, all of which may be transferred to and merged with 106 STAT. 1645the appropriation for Operating Expenses of the Agency for International Development: Provided further, That commitments to guarantee loans under this heading may be entered into notwithstanding the second and third sentences of section 222(a) and, with regard to programs for Eastern Europe, section 223(j) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be obligated except through the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. debt restructuring under the enterprise for the americas initiative For the cost, as defined in section 13201 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, of modifying direct loans authorized by chapter 1 of part I and chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (including predecessor legislation) and loans made pursuant to the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, as amended, $50,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be obligated except through the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. economic support fund For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of chapter 4 of part II, $2,670,000,000: Provided, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, not less than $1,200,000,000 shall be available only for Israel, which sum shall be available on a grant basis as a cash transfer and shall be disbursed within thirty days of enactment of this Act or by October 31, 1992, whichever is later: Provided further, That not less than $815,000,000 shall be available only for Egypt, which sum shall be provided on a grant basis, and of which sum cash transfer assistance may be provided, with the understanding that Egypt will undertake significant economic reforms which are additional to those which were undertaken in previous fiscal years, and of which not less than $200,000,000 shall be provided as Commodity Import Program assistance: Provided further, That not less than the equivalent of $15,000,000 of local currencies generated by programs under this heading for Egypt shall be made available for projects and programs which promote the preservation and restoration of Egyptian antiquities: Provided further, That in exercising the authority to provide cash transfer assistance for Israel and Egypt, the President shall ensure that the level of such assistance does not cause an adverse impact on the total level of nonmilitary exports from the United States to each such country: Provided further, That it is the sense of the Congress that the recommended levels of assistance for Egypt and Israel are based in great measure upon their continued participation in the Camp David Accords and upon the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty: Provided further, That not less than $25,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available for the West Bank and Gaza Program through the Near East regional program: Provided further, That not less than $15,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available for Cyprus to be used only for scholarships, bicommunal projects, and measures aimed at the reunification of the island and designed to reduce tensions and promote peace and cooperation 106 STAT. 1646between the two communities on Cyprus: Provided further, That not more than $50,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading may be made available for Peru: Provided further, That not less than $20,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available for Morocco and not less than $125,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available for Turkey: Provided further, That not less than $5,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for Haiti for emergency relief and humanitarian assistance through private and voluntary organizations: Provided further, That in the event that the extension of the South Pacific Tuna Treaty is signed by September 30, 1993, $14,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available for the South Pacific Tuna Treaty: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available for Zaire: Provided further, That not more than $300,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading may be made available to finance tied-aid credits, unless the President determines it is in the national interest to provide in excess of $300,000,000 and so notifies the Committees on Appropriations through the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That none of the funds made available or limited by this Act may be used for tied-aid credits or tied-aid grants except through the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated by this Act to carry out the provisions of chapters 1 and 10 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 may be used for tied-aid credits: Provided further, That as used in this heading the term “tied-aid credits” means any credit, within the meaning of section 15(h)(1) of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, which is used for blended or parallel financing, as those terms are defined by sections 15(h) (4) and (5), respectively, of such Act: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading that are allocated for the Dominican Republic, $1,000,000 shall be withheld from expenditure until the President reports to the Committees on Appropriations on the steps taken by the Government of the Dominican Republic to improve respect for internationally recognized human rights of Haitian laborers engaged in the sugar cane harvesting industry in the Dominican Republic, including the enforcement of the provisions mandated by President Balaguer’s decree of October 15, 1990: Provided further, That funds appropriated under this heading shall remain available until September 30, 1994. international fund for ireland For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of chapter 4 of part II, $19,704,000, which shall be available for the United States contribution to the International Fund for Ireland and shall be made available in accordance with the provisions of the Anglo-Irish Agreement Support Act of 1986 (Public Law 99–415): Provided, That such amount shall be expended at the minimum rate necessary to make timely payment for projects and activities: Provided further, That funds made available under this heading shall remain available until expended.