FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED Public Law 93-240 93rd Congress, H.R. 11771 January 2, 1974 AN ACT Making appropriations for Foreign Assistance and related programs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for Foreign Assistance and related programs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and for other purposes, namely: TITLE I-FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT ACTIVITIES FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT For expenses necessary to enable the President to carry out the provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and for other purposes, to remain available until June 30, 1974, unless otherwise specified herein, as follows: ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE Food and nutrition, Development Assistance: For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 103, $284,000,000: Provided, That in addition to the amounts provided for loans to carry out the purposes of this paragraph, such amounts as are provided for under section 203 shall also be available for loans, together with all such amounts to remain available until expended. Population planning and health, Development Assistance: For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 104, $135,000,000: Provided, That in addition to the amounts provided for loans to carry out the purposes of this paragraph, such amounts as are provided for under section 203 shall also be available for loans, together all such amounts to remain available until expended: Provided further, That not more than $112,500,000 appropriated or made available under this Act shall be used for the purposes of section 291 during the current fiscal year. Education and human resources development, Development Assistance: For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 105, $89,000,000: Provided, That in addition to the amounts provided for loans to carry out the purposes of this paragraph, such amounts as are provided for under section 203 shall also be available for loans, together all such amounts to remain available until expended. $284,000,000 135,000,000 89,000,000 Selected development problems, Development Assistance: For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 106, $40,500,000: Provided, That in addition to the amounts provided for loans to carry out the purposes of this paragraph, such amounts as are provided for under section 203 shall also be available for loans, together all such amounts to remain available until expended. Selected countries and organizations, Development Assistance: For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 107, $36,500,000: Provided, That in addition to the amounts provided for loans to carry out the purposes of this paragraph, such amounts as are provided for under section 203 shall also be available for loans, together all such amounts to remain available until expended. Limitation on grants, Development Assistance: Of the new obligational authority appropriated under this Act to carry out the provisions of sections 103-107, not more than $300,000,000 shall be available for grants. International organizations and programs: For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 301, $125,000,000, of which $15,000,000 shall be available only for the United Nations Children's Fund and of which $14,300,000 shall be available only for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. United Nations Environment Fund: For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 2 of the United Nation's Environment Program Participation Act of 1973, $7,500,000. American schools and hospitals abroad: For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 214, $19,000,000. American schools and hospitals abroad (special foreign currency program): For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 214, $6,500,000 in foreign currencies which the Treasury Department determines to be excess to the normal requirements of the United States, to remain available until expended. National Association of the Partners of the Alliance, Inc.: For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 252 (b) $750,000. Indus Basin Development Fund, grants: For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 302 (b) (2) with respect to Indus Basin Development Fund, grants, $9,000,000: Provided, That no other funds appropriated or made available under this Act shall be used for the purposes of such section during the current fiscal year. Indus Basin Development Fund, loans: For expenses authorized by section 302(b) (1), $2,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That no other funds appropriated or made available under this Act shall be used for the purposes of such section during the current fiscal year. United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Arab refugees): For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 302(e), $2,000,000. Albert Schweitzer Hospital: For necessary expenses to carry out section 33 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1973, $1,000,000. Contingency fund: For necessary expenses, $15,000,000, to be used for the purposes set forth in section 451. International narcotics control: For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 481, $42,500,000. $40,500,000 36,500,000 125,000,000 7,500,000 19,000,000 6.500.000 (foreign currencies) 750,000 9,000,000 2,000,000 2,000.000 1,000,000 15,000,000 42,500,000 African Sahel famine and disaster relief assistance: For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 639A, $25,000,000. Administrative expenses: For necessary expenses, $40,000,000, to 25,000,000 40,000,000 be used for the purposes set forth in section 637 (a). Administrative and other expenses: For expenses authorized by section 637 (b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and by section 305 of the Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951, as amended, $4,800,000. Unobligated balances as of June 30, 1973, of funds heretofore made available under the authority of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, except as otherwise provided by law, are hereby continued available for the fiscal year 1974, for the same general purposes for which appropriated and amounts certified pursuant to section 1311 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1955, as having been obligated against appropriations heretofore made under the authority of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, for the same general purpose as any of the subparagraphs under "Economic Assistance", "Security Supporting Assistance", and "Indochina Postwar Reconstruction Assistance", are hereby continued available for the same period as the respective appropriations in such subparagraphs for the same general purpose: Provided, That such unobligated balances as of June 30, 1973, and such amounts certified pursuant to section 1311 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1955, as having been obligated against appropriations heretofore made under the authority of section 531 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, are hereby continued available for the fiscal year 1974 for expenses to carry out the provisions of section 531 or section 801 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended: Provided further, That such purpose relates to a project or program previously justified to Congress and the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate are notified prior to the reobligation of funds for such projects or programs. [Total, Economic Assistance, $878,550,000.] MILITARY ASSISTANCE Military assistance: For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 503 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, including administrative expenses and purchase of passenger motor vehicles for replacement only for use outside of the United States, $450,000,000: Provided, That none of the funds contained in this paragraph shall be available for the purchase of new automotive vehicles outside of the United States. INDOCHINA POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE Indochina postwar reconstruction assistance: For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 801 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, $450,000,000. SECURITY SUPPORTING ASSISTANCE Security supporting assistance: For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 531 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, $112,500,000: Provided, That of the funds appropriated under this paragraph, not less than $50,000,000 shall be allocated to Israel. OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION The Overseas Private Investment Corporation is authorized to make such expenditures within the limits of funds available to it and in accordance with law (including not to exceed $10,000 for entertainment allowances), and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended (31 U.S.C, 849), $4,800,000 450,000,000 450,000,000 112,500,000 as may be necessary in carrying out the program set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year. Overseas Private Investment Corporation, reserves: For expenses authorized by section 235 (f), $25,000,000, to remain available until expended. INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION The Inter-American Foundation is authorized to make such expenditures within the limits of funds available to it and in accordance with the law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended (31 U.S.C. 849), as may be necessary in carrying out its authorized programs during the current fiscal year: Provided, That not to exceed $10,000,000 shall be available to carry out the authorized programs during the current fiscal year. 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. 105. 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 pursu $25,000,000 10.000.000 (limitation оп obligations) ant 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 underdeveloped 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 such 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 |