Agency for International Development

Agency for International Development agriculture, rural development, and nutrition, development assistance For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 103, $483,715,000: Provided, That up to $5,000,000 shall be provided for new development projects of private entities and cooperatives utilizing surplus dairy products: Provided further, That not less than $8,000,000 shall be provided for the Vitamin A Deficiency Program: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, up to $10,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available, and remain available until expended, for agricultural activities in Poland which are managed by the Polish Catholic Church or other nongovernmental organizations: Provided further, That not less than $1,000,000 shall be available for a Farmer-to-Farmer program for Poland, notwithstanding any other provision of law. population, development assistance For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 104(b), $220,000,000: 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. health, development assistance For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 104(c), $125,994,000. international aids prevention and control program For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, $42,000,000, which shall be made available only for activities relating to research on, and the treatment and control of, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in developing countries: Provided, That of the funds made available under this heading $21,000,000 shall be provided directly to the World Health Organization for its use in financing the Global 103 STAT. 1201Program on AIDS, including activities implemented by the Pan American Health Organization. child survival fund For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 104(c)(2), $71,000,000. education and human resources development, development assistance For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 105, $134,541,000: Provided, That $1,500,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available for the Caribbean Law Institute: Provided further, That not less than $67,270,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading and under the heading “Sub-Saharan Africa, Development Assistance” shall be available only for programs in basic primary and secondary education: Provided further, That in fiscal year 1990 the Agency for International Development shall initiate three new bilateral projects in basic primary and secondary education, at least two of which shall be initiated in Sub-Saharan Africa: Provided farther, That not less than $20,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available for the International Student Exchange Program, of which $2,000,000 shall be available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for students from Poland and Hungary: Provided further, That not less than $1,200,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available for leadership programs for the Americas that have a demonstrated record of performance: Provided farther, That not less than $2,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for technical training for the people of Poland and Hungary in skills which would foster the development of a market economy and the private sector, including training in management and agricultural extension: Provided further, That not less than $3,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for educational and cultural exchanges with Poland and Hungary, which shall be undertaken in cooperation with the United States Information Agency. private sector, environment, and energy, development assistance For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 106, $149,209,000: Provided, That not less than $7,500,000 shall be made available only 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, and of which not less than $2,500,000 shall be made available for cooperative development research projects: Provided farther, That not less than $5,000,000 shall be made available only for the Central American Rural Electrification Support project: Provided further, That not less than $2,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading or under the heading “Sub-Saharan Africa, Development Assistance”, shall be made available for assistance in support of elephant conservation and preservation: Provided further, That not 103 STAT. 1202 less than $3,300,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for assistance to establish an air quality monitoring network in the Krakow, Poland metropolitan area, to improve water quality and the availability of drinking water in the Krakow metropolitan area, and to establish and support a regional environmental center in Budapest, Hungary for facilitating cooperative environmental activities, which activities shall be undertaken in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency: Provided further, That not less than $10,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for support for retrofitting a coal-fired commercial plant in the Krakow, Poland region with clean coal technology and for assistance to assess and develop the capability within Poland to manufacture or modify equipment that will enable industrial activities within Poland to use fossil fuels cleanly, which activities shall be undertaken in cooperation with the Department of Energy: Provided further, That the Administrator of the Agency for International Development or his designee may vest title in any property acquired under the previous two provisos in an entity other than the United States: Provided further, That not less than $1,500,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the provision of technical assistance to Poland and Hungary (1) for the implementation of labor market reforms, and (2) to facilitate adjustment during the period of transition to free labor markets and labor organizations, which activities shall be undertaken in cooperation with the Department of Labor and United States labor and business representatives. science and technology, development assistance For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 106, $8,662,000. micro-enterprise development Of the funds appropriated by this Act to carry out chapter 1 of part I and chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, not less than $75,000,000 shall be made available for programs of credit and other assistance for micro-enterprises in developing countries: Provided, That local currencies which accrue as a result of assistance provided to carry out the provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 may be used for assistance for micro-enterprises: Provided further, That such local currencies which are used for this purpose shall be in lieu of funds earmarked under this heading and shall reduce the amount earmarked for assistance for micro-enterprises by an equal amount. poland and hungary Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the funds appropriated by this Act to carry out chapter 1 of part I and chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, not less than $45,000,000 shall be made available for Poland and not less than $5,000,000 shall be made available for Hungary, which funds shall be used in support of the private sector and other economic develop-103 STAT. 1203ment programs: Provided, That funds made available under this heading shall remain available until September 30, 1991. sub-saharan africa, development assistance For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of sections 103 through 106 and section 121 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, $565,000,000, for assistance only for Sub-Saharan Africa, which shall be in addition to any amounts otherwise available for such purposes: Provided, That the authorities contained under this heading in the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1989 (Public Law 100–461), shall be applicable to amounts appropriated under this heading until an Act authorizing assistance for such purposes for the fiscal year 1990 is enacted into law: Provided further, That not less than $50,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available only 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. zaire Funds appropriated to carry out chapter 1 of part I which are allocated for Zaire shall be made available through private and voluntary organizations to the maximum extent practicable. 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 $3,000,000 shall be made available for programs and activities for children who have become orphans as a result of the effects of drought, civil strife, and other natural and man-made disasters: Provided, That assistance under this heading shall be made available in accordance with the policies and general authorities contained in section 491 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. assistance for victims of war Of the aggregate of the funds appropriated by this Act to carry out part I and chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, not less than $5,000,000 shall be made available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for assistance for the provision of prostheses and related assistance for civilians who have been injured as a result of civil strife and warfare: Provided, That this amount shall be derived in equal amounts from part I and from chapter 4 of part II. 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 $5,000,000 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 103 STAT. 1204such 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 $3,000,000 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 are designed so that the percentage of women participants will be demonstrably increased. 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. private sector revolving fund (including transfers of funds) For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 108 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, not to exceed $5,000,000 to be derived by transfer from funds appropriated to carry out the provisions of chapter 1 of part I of such Act, to remain available until expended. During fiscal year 1990, obligations for assistance from amounts in the revolving fund account under section 108 shall not exceed $3,500,000. During fiscal year 1990, total commitments to guarantee loans shall not exceed $46,115,020 of contingent liability for loan principal. american schools and hospitals abroad For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 214, $35,000,000. international disaster assistance For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 491, $25,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That not less than $500,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading may be made available for assistance for children who have become orphans as a result of natural disasters. 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, $40,147,000. 103 STAT. 1205 operating expenses of the agency for international development For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 667, $437,000,000: Provided, That not more than $15,000,000 (except that payment may be made under this limitation only for those categories of services for which charges have been made under Foreign Affairs Administrative Support both in prior years and in the current year) of this amount shall be for Foreign Affairs Administrative Support. operating expenses of the agency for international development office of inspector general For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 667, $31,000,000, 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 up to 3 per centum of the amount made available under the heading “Operating Expenses of the Agency for International Development” may be transferred to and merged and consolidated with amounts made available under this heading: Provided further, 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 forty at September 30, 1990. housing and other credit guaranty programs During the fiscal year 1990, total commitments to guarantee loans shall not exceed $125,000,000 of contingent liability for loan principal: Provided, That the President shall enter into commitments to guarantee such loans in the full amount provided under this heading, subject only to the availability of qualified applicants for such guarantees: Provided further, That guarantees issued under this heading shall guarantee 100 per centum of the principal and interest payable on such loans: Provided further, That no loans guaranteed under this heading shall be issued or held by the Federal Financing Bank: Provided further, That pursuant to section 223(e)(2) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 borrowing authority provided therein may be exercised in such amounts as may be necessary to retain an adequate level of contingency reserves for the fiscal year 1990: Provided further, That section 222(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended by striking out “September 30, 1990” and inserting in lieu thereof “September 30, 1991”: Provided further, That notwithstanding the prior limitation on total commitments to guarantee loans at not to exceed $125,000,000, during the fiscal year 1990, total commitments to guarantee loans shall not exceed $100,000,000 of contingent liability for loan principal. 103 STAT. 1206 economic support fund For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of chapter 4 of part II, $3,205,000,000: 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, 1989, 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 sufficient Egyptian pounds generated from funds made available under this heading or any other heading of this Act shall be made available to the United States pursuant to the United States-Egypt Economic, Technical and Related Assistance Agreements of 1978 (which provide for local currency requirement for programs of the United States in Egypt to be made available to the United States in the manner requested by the United States Government), to enable the United States Embassy in Cairo to restore the endowment entitled “U.S. Government Trustee” to the Egyptian pound equivalent level, at the commercial rate of exchange, of $50,000,000, the level of endowment established by Congress in Public Law 99–88: Provided further, That an additional 20,000,000 Egyptian pounds generated from the same sources shall be made available pursuant to the same agreements to enable the United States Embassy in Cairo to establish an endowment to support other United States educational programs in Egypt: Provided farther, 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 of the funds appropriated under this heading and allocated for El Salvador, up to $1,500,000 (or the equivalent in local currencies generated with funds provided to El Salvador under this heading) may be made available, notwithstanding section 660 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, to assist the Government of El Salvador’s Special Investigative Unit, including for the purpose of bringing to justice those responsible for the murders of United States citizens in El Salvador: Provided farther, That section 534(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended by (1) striking “each of fiscal years 1988 and 1989” and inserting in lieu thereof “fiscal year 1990”; and (2) striking “September 30, 1989” and inserting in lieu thereof “September 30, 1990”: Provided further, That not less than $12,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available for the West Bank and Gaza Program through the Asia and Near East regional program: Provided further, That not less than $35,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available for Jordan: Provided further, That not less than $15,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall 103 STAT. 1207be made available for Cyprus: Provided further, That not less than $230,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available for Pakistan: Provided further, That not less than $20,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available for Morocco: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available for Zaire: Provided further, That prior to the initial obligation of assistance for El Salvador from funds appropriated under this heading, the President shall report to the Congress on the extent to which the Government of El Salvador has made demonstrable progress in settling outstanding expropriation claims of American citizens in compliance with the judgment of the Supreme Court of El Salvador: Provided further, That the total amount of assistance provided for any country in Central America under this heading and to carry out the provisions of sections 103 through 106 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 shall not be reduced, from amounts allocated to such country for such purposes for fiscal year 1989, by a percentage greater than the percentage reduction from amounts allocated for any other country in Central America for such purposes for such fiscal year: Provided further, That if funds made available under this heading are provided to a foreign country as cash transfer assistance, that country shall be required to maintain these funds in a separate account and not commingle them with any other funds: Provided further, That such funds may be obligated and expended notwithstanding provisions of law which are inconsistent with the nature of this assistance including provisions which are referenced in the Joint Explanatory Statement of the Committee of Conference accompanying House Joint Resolution 648 (H. Rept. No. 98–1159): Provided further, That all local currencies that may be generated with such funds shall be treated in accordance with section 592 of this Act: Provided further, That at least fifteen days prior to obligating any such assistance to a foreign country under this heading, the President shall submit a notification through the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, which shall include a detailed description of how the funds proposed to be made available will be used, with a discussion of the United States interests that will be served by the assistance (including, as appropriate, a description of the economic policy reforms that will be promoted by such assistance): Provided further, That not more than $5,000,000 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 $5,000,000 and so notifies the Committees on Appropriations through the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds appropriated under this heading may be used for tied aid credits without the prior approval of the Administrator of the Agency for International Development: Provided further, That, except as provided by this Act, none of the funds appropriated under this heading by this Act or prior foreign assistance appropriations Acts, shall be made available for tied aid credits in accordance with any provision of law enacted after May 19, 1988: 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 the humanitarian relief, medical treatment, education and voca-103 STAT. 1208tional training of victims of the Armenian earthquake of December 7, 1988, which amount shall be channeled through United States private and voluntary organizations and other United States non-governmental organizations: Provided further, That $2,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the provision of medical supplies and hospital equipment to Poland, including expenses of purchasing, transporting, and distributing such supplies and equipment, and for training Polish medical personnel: Provided further, That $1,500,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, only to support Solidarity through the AFLCIO’s Free Trade Union Institute to promote democratic activities in Poland: Provided further, That not less than $200,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for Poland: Provided further, That $2,500,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, to support independent, democratic organizations and activities in Poland and Hungary: Provided further, That funds made available under this heading shall remain available until September 30, 1991. international fund for ireland For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of chapter 4 of part II, $20,000,000, 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. multilateral assistance initiative for the philippines For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, $160,000,000, which shall be available for the Multilateral Assistance Initiative for the Philippines: Provided, That not less than 75 per centum of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available for project and sector activities consistent with the purposes of sections 103 through 106 of such Act: Provided further, That the President shall seek to channel through indigenous and United States private voluntary organizations and cooperatives not less than $20,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading and of the funds appropriated and allocated for the Philippines to carry out sections 103 through 106 of such Act: Provided further, That up to a total of $40,000,000 of the funds appropriated to carry out sections 103 through 106 and chapter 4 of part II of such Act may be transferred to and consolidated and merged with the funds appropriated under this heading notwithstanding the limitations on transfers between accounts contained in section 514 of this Act and sections 109 and 610 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided further, That any funds transferred to carry out the purposes of this heading shall be made available only for projects and activities which are consistent with the purposes of those funds as initially appropriated: Provided further, That 103 STAT. 1209of the total amount of funds transferred to carry out the purposes of this heading not less than 50 per centum shall be derived from funds appropriated to carry out chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act: Provided further, That transfers of any funds to carry out the purposes of this heading shall be subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That funds made available under this heading shall remain available until September 30, 1991: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be made available except as provided through the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations.