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I would also like to confirm that we would be grateful for your help, if we so require it, in obtaining financial and/or technical assistance for projects and programmes under our own auspices or under Non Government auspices. Such assistance may well be requested in relation to the National Conservation Strategy, where we will be specifically interested in promoting conservation; diversifying rural employment; developing tourism; planning good urban environments; utilising wildlife; and promoting sustainable livestock development, amongst other things.

I do hope you find these points a satisfactory basis on which we can build mutual cooperation and benefit. We certainly enjoyed your visit and the chance it provided to have valuable discussions and to show you something of Botswana. We look forward to continuing the dialogue.

Yours sincerely,

P.K. Ealogi

HONOURABLE MINISTER

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A BILL

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"SEC. 1302. The Secretary of the Treasury and the
+ Secretary of State, in cooperation with the Administrator of
5 the Agency for International Development, shall vigorously
6 promote mechanisms to strengthen the environmental per-
7 formance of these banks. These mechanisms shall include
8 strengthening organizational, administrative, and procedural
9 arrangements within the banks which will substantially im-
10 prove management of assistance programs necessary to
11 ensure the sustainable use of natural resources and the
12 protection of indigenous peoples.

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"SEC. 1303. (a)(1) In the course of reviewing assistance
14 proposals of the multilateral development banks, the Admin-
15 istrator of the Agency for International Development, in con-
16 sultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secre-
17 tary of State, shall ensure that other agencies and appropri-
18 ate United States embassies and overseas missions of the
19 Agency for International Development are instructed to ana-
20 yze, where feasible, the environmental impacts of multilater-
21 al development loans well in advance of such loans' approval
22 by the relevant institutions to determine whether the propos-

23 als will contribute to the sustainable development of the bor21rowing country.

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"(2) To the extent possible, such reviews shall address

2 the economic viability of the project, adverse impacts on the
3 environment, natural resources, public health, and indigenous
4 peoples, and recommendations as to measures, including al-
5 ternatives, that could eliminate or mitigate adverse impacts.
"(3) If there is reason to believe that any such loan is
7 particularly likely to have substantial adverse impacts, the
8 Administrator of the Agency for International Development,
9 in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the
10 Secretary of State, shall ensure that an affirmative investiga-
11 tion of such impacts is undertaken in consultation with rele-
12 vant Federal agencies. If not classified under the national
13 security system of classification, the information collected
pursuant to this paragraph shall be made available to the
15 public.

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"(b) The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the 17 Executive Directors representing the United States at the 18 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the 19 Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development 20 Bank, and the African Development Bank to urge the man21 agement and other directors of each such bank, to provide 23 sufficient time between the circulation of assistance proposals 23 and bank action on those proposals, in order to permit their 24 evaluation by major shareholder governments.

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"(c) Based on the information obtained during the eval-
2 uation referred to in subsection (a) and other available infor-
3 mation, the Administrator of the Agency for International
+ Development, in consultation with the Secretary of the
5 Treasury and the Secretary of State, shall identify those as-
6 sistance proposals likely to have adverse impacts on the envi-
7 ronment, natural resources, public health, or indigenous peo-
8 ples. The proposals so identified shall be transmitted to the
9 Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Bank-
10 ing, Finance and Urban Affairs of the House of Representa-
11 tives and the Committee on Appropriations and the Com-
12 mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, not later than
13 June 30 and December 31 of each year following the date of
14 enactment of this title.

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"(d) The Secretary of the Treasury shall forward reports
16 concerning information received under subsection (a) to the
17 Executive Director representing the United States in the
18 propriate bank with instructions to seek to eliminate or miti-
19 gate adverse impacts which may result from the proposal.
"SEC. 1304. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consul-
21 tation with the Secretary of State and the Administrator of
22 the Agency for International Development, shall create a
23 system for cooperative exchange of information with other
24 interested member countries on assistance proposals of the
25 inultilateral development banks.

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"SEC. 1305. The Secretary of the Treasury shall in

2 struct the United States Executive Directors of the multilat-
3 eral development banks to support the strengthening of edu-
4 cational
programs within each multilateral development bank

5 to improve the capacity of mid-level managers to initiate and
6 manage environmental aspects of development activities, and
7 to train officials of borrowing countries in the conduct of en-
8 vironmental analyses.

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"SEC. 1306. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall
10 instruct the United States Executive Director of each multi-
11 lateral development bank to vigorously and continuously urge
12 that each bank identify and develop methods and procedures
13 to insure that in addition to economic and technical consider-
14 ations, unquantified environmental values be given appropri-
15 ate consideration in decisionmaking, and include in the docu-
16 ments circulated to the Board of Executive Directors con-
17 cerning each assistance proposal a detailed statement, to in-
18 clude assessment of the benefits and costs of environmental
19 impacts and possible mitigating measures, on the environ-
20 mental impact of the proposed action, any adverse environ-
21 mental effects which cannot be avoided if the proposal is im
22 plemented, and alternatives to the proposed action.

project components;

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"SEC. 1307. Not later than January 15 of each year

25 sultations with the Secretary of Agriculture.

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