AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC FACILITIES IN GERMANY.

SEC. 1432. AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC FACILITIES IN GERMANY. (a) Limitation on Source of Funds for New United States Diplomatic Facilities.—(1) As of January 1, 1995, the United States may not purchase, construct, lease, or otherwise occupy any facility as an embassy, chancery, or consular facility in Germany unless that facility is purchased, constructed, modified, or leased with funds provided by the Government of Germany as an offset for the value of facilities returned by the United States Government to the Government of Germany pursuant to Article 52 of the Status-of-Forces Agreement with the Government of Germany in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act. (2) The limitation in paragraph (1) does not apply with respect to any facility occupied as of January 1, 1995, by United States diplomatic personnel. (b) Certification.—As of January 1, 1995, the Secretary of State (and any representative of the Secretary of State) may not enter into any legal instrument to purchase, construct, modify, or lease any facility described in subsection (a) until the Secretary of Defense certifies to the appropriate committees of Congress that the United States has received (or is scheduled to receive) cash payments or offsets-in-kind of a value not less than 50 percent of the value of the facilities returned by the United States Government to the Government of Germany pursuant to Article 52 of the Status-of-Forces Agreement with the Government of Germany in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act. (c) Definition.—For purposes of this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means— (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.