[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[H.R. 6655 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6655

                  To authorize assistance for Liberia.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 2008

  Mr. Jackson of Illinois (for himself, Mr. Clyburn, Mr. Berman, Mr. 
 Payne, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Ellison, Ms. Watson, Mrs. Capps, Mr. Price of 
    North Carolina, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Ms. Lee, Ms. 
  McCollum of Minnesota, Ms. Kilpatrick, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mr. 
   Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Carson, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Eddie 
Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. 
  Scott of Virginia, Mr. Scott of Georgia, Mr. Towns, Mr. Israel, Mr. 
Rothman, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Watt, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Clay, Ms. Corrine 
   Brown of Florida, Mrs. Christensen, and Ms. Edwards of Maryland) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                            Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
                  To authorize assistance for Liberia.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Liberia Stabilization, Economic 
Empowerment, Development and Security Act of 2008'' or the ``Liberia 
SEEDS Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Since the founding of Liberia, the Liberian people have 
        been staunch Unites States allies and friends in sub-Saharan 
        Africa, and the history of Liberia is closely entwined with 
        that of the United States.
            (2) After two brutal civil wars, peace in Liberia was 
        achieved as a result of implementation of the Comprehensive 
        Peace Agreement of 2003, which was signed in Accra, Ghana, on 
        August 18, 2003, following the cessation of Liberia's second 
        national armed civil conflict, which lasted from 1999 to 2003, 
        and followed the first such conflict, which took place from 
        1989 to1997.
            (3) The Liberian people demonstrated their deep commitment 
        to a system of democratic, constitutionally based government by 
        turning out in large numbers to vote in peaceful, free, and 
        fair presidential and legislative elections on October 11, 
        2005, and in a free and fair presidential run-off election held 
        on November 8, 2005, which resulted in the election to office 
        of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, who became the 
        first woman elected president of an African country.
            (4) The robust and active efforts by the Government of 
        President Sirleaf to promote the socio-economic development of 
        Liberia are severely challenged by the abiding legacies of 
        Liberia's two recent civil wars, and by over a decade of 
        misgovernance that preceded and contributed to the outbreak of 
        the first of these conflicts, including--
                    (A) the near-total destruction of Liberia's public 
                systems for electricity generation and transmission, 
                potable water distribution and treatment, and public 
                sanitation, and the long-term and substantial neglect 
                of Liberia's limited national all weather road system;
                    (B) the widespread lack of well-functioning central 
                government institutions, public sector corruption, and 
                the general absence of democratic accountability; and
                    (C) a history of numerous citizen abuses, 
                curtailments of constitutional freedoms, and often 
                serious and criminal violations of human rights, 
                including extortion, child abduction, rape, torture, 
                and extra-judicial killings, by many members of the 
                former Armed Forces of Liberia, national police, and 
                other public security agencies, caused by the 
                politicization of public security functions, widespread 
                personal corruption among military and police 
                personnel, and lack of personnel training.
            (5) Since 2003, the United States has invested over 
        $1,500,000,000 to help end the Liberian conflict, consolidate 
        the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2003, support the national 
        democratic elections of 2005, deliver emergency humanitarian 
        assistance to the Liberian people, and assist in the post-war 
        economic and political reconstruction of Liberia.

SEC. 3. DECLARATION OF POLICY.

    Congress makes the following declarations:
            (1) In order to support the democratic and socio-economic 
        aspirations of the Liberian people, the United States should 
        continue to support and assist the Government of President 
        Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and its energetic and 
        dedicated efforts to rebuild Liberia economically, socially, 
        and politically, to expand constitutional freedoms and 
        protections and the rule of law, and to improve the lives of 
        the Liberian people.
            (2) The United States should also continue to provide 
        assistance to the people of Liberia in order to--
                    (A) assist Liberia in making irrevocable and 
                permanent the peace achieved as a result of 
                implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 
                2003 signed in Accra, Ghana, on August 18, 2003;
                    (B) ensure that Liberia never again becomes a 
                source of regional military or political instability, a 
                threat to the sovereignty or territorial integrity of 
                neighboring countries, or a source of insecurity for 
                those countries' citizens; and
                    (C) protect the interests and substantial past and 
                current investments of the United States in Liberia.
            (3) Among other important objectives, assistance provided 
        by United States for the Liberian people should seek to--
                    (A) build a robust, private sector-based, market-
                driven economy capable of substantially alleviating the 
                most severe and widespread forms of poverty in Liberia, 
                in accordance with the United Nations Millennium 
                Declaration (A/RES/55/2), adopted by the United Nations 
                General Assembly on September 18, 2000;
                    (B) build a democratic, accountable, and fully 
                participatory democratic political system, based on the 
                constitutional rule of law and well-functioning 
                government institutions capable of effectively 
                providing public goods and services to the Liberian 
                people and of resolving key problems, including unmet 
                basic socio-economic needs, the inequitable 
                distribution of resources, and the persisting impact of 
                undemocratic practices under past Liberian governments, 
                which contributed to the outbreak of Liberia's two 
                armed civil conflicts;
                    (C) help foster close bilateral cooperation between 
                the United States and Liberia and support cooperation 
                between Liberia and multilateral and international 
                organizations; and
                    (D) assist efforts by the Government of Liberia to 
                ensure effective governance, and achieve social 
                development and sustainable, private sector-led 
                economic growth by--
                            (i) reconstructing or refurbishing basic 
                        physical infrastructure;
                            (ii) pursuing efforts to ensure government 
                        accountability, and public sector fiscal and 
                        operational transparency and effectiveness;
                            (iii) pursuing efforts to ensure public 
                        safety and security and adherence to the rule 
                        of law;
                            (iv) ensuring that ex-combatants and war-
                        affected youth are given access to job training 
                        and opportunities to work on public work 
                        projects in order to enable them to contribute 
                        as gainfully employed citizens to the 
                        development of their country; and
                            (v) supporting Liberian efforts to advance 
                        the pursuit of transitional justice, national 
                        reconciliation, and accountability for crimes 
                        by government officials and others, including 
                        human rights violations and misappropriations 
                        of public funds.

SEC. 4. PURPOSES OF ASSISTANCE.

    The purposes of assistance authorized by this Act are to ensure 
that the United States, in furtherance of its security and other 
national interests, fulfills the U.S. Foreign Assistance Framework 
objectives of Peace and Security, Governing Justly and Democratically, 
and Economic Growth by providing targeted assistance to support efforts 
by the people and Government of Liberia to--
            (1) ensure that all Government of Liberia revenues, in 
        particular revenues derived from the ecologically and 
        financially sustainable use or sale of Liberia's abundant 
        natural resources, are used in an accountable, transparent, and 
        equitable manner for public purposes, including by continuing 
        to--
                    (A) provide assistance to support national fiscal 
                management and oversight capacity development and 
                reforms under the donor-backed Governance and Economic 
                Management Assistance Program (GEMAP) during its 
                remaining period of operation; and
                    (B) invest in economic good governance programs or 
                capacity-building efforts that are endorsed or 
                implemented by the Liberia Reconstruction and 
                Development Committee (LRDC), its component 
                subcommittees or associated organs, or any similar 
                entity that may in the future succeed the LRDC;
            (2) build a robust, free market system, spur economic 
        revitalization and growth, help alleviate poverty, and advance 
        access to basic services by reconstructing or refurbishing 
        basic physical infrastructure, or major elements thereof, 
        including public electricity generation and transmission, clean 
        water delivery, and sewerage systems, which were substantially 
        destroyed by years of armed conflict, and support the 
        Government of Liberia's efforts to improve key sections of 
        Liberia's national all weather road system, which is 
        rudimentary, fragmented, and in need of substantial repairs;
            (3) create a stream-lined and simplified legal and 
        regulatory investment regime, including an integrated one-stop 
        investment licensing system, in order to facilitate and 
        increase domestic and foreign investment and foster 
        entrepreneurship;
            (4) enhance Liberian Government accountability and 
        effectiveness, including with respect to managerial and 
        administrative competency in order to ensure that all central 
        government ministries, functional agencies, and other public 
        entities--
                    (A) develop capacities to provide efficient, cost-
                effective, ethical, and rule of law-based public goods 
                and services to the Liberian people; and
                    (B) implement measures to counter and overcome the 
                persisting effects of Liberia's long legacy of poor 
                governance, corrupt practices, and the frequent absence 
                of democratic accountability under previous Liberian 
                administrations;
            (5) foster an informed and independent national legislature 
        capable of effectively crafting and enacting laws, budgets, and 
        appropriation measures, interacting with the executive branch 
        as a responsible and co-equal branch of government, and 
        carrying out legislative oversight functions;
            (6) build the operational capacity of the Liberian National 
        Police, other civilian public security agencies, and other 
        elements of the justice system, including the court and penal 
        systems, in order to--
                    (A) ensure that civilian public security agencies 
                are capable of providing public safety, and that 
                together with the other elements of the justice system, 
                effectively, equitably, and without ethnic, gender, 
                sexual orientation, or age-based prejudice, 
                constitutionally enforce Liberian laws; and
                    (B) prevent the recurrence of past patterns of 
                behavior by public security agencies during the tenure 
                of multiple past Liberian administrations, during which 
                ill-trained personnel frequently abetted abuses of 
                political power by the national government, engaged in 
                corrupt acts, and committed numerous and often serious 
                abuses of human rights and civic freedoms;
            (7) build a national system of vocational education 
        available, in particular, to war-affected youth and ex-
        combatants, and to employ such persons, among others, in the 
        construction of public works projects, both as a means of 
        making them productive citizens and in order to deter their 
        potential participation in illicit income-generating 
        activities; and
            (8) assist Liberian Government efforts to advance post-war 
        national reconciliation, transitional justice, and legal 
        accountability for past or current acts of misgovernance by 
        government officials and others.

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF ASSISTANCE.

    (a) Development Assistance.--The President is authorized to provide 
assistance to Liberia for the following activities and purposes:
            (1) Roads and bridges.--Phased refurbishment or upgrading 
        of existing key roads and bridges, initially targeting routes 
        that carry the highest goods and services traffic, that support 
        farm-to-market transport needs, or that provide linkages 
        between key urban and rural population centers, notably those 
        that provide linkages to isolated regions of the country.
            (2) Freeport of monrovia.--Rehabilitation of Monrovia 
        Freeport, initially targeting priority needs pertaining to the 
        following objectives:
                    (A) Measures to facilitate and secure sea-going 
                vessel navigation within the harbor, including dredging 
                of silted areas, removal of shipwrecks, and 
                installation of navigation lights or signals.
                    (B) Rehabilitation of port wharf berths and piers, 
                including installation of equipment necessary for 
                loading and unloading sea-going vessels or for purposes 
                of delivering maintenance services to such vessels.
                    (C) Rehabilitation of warehouse buildings nearby or 
                adjacent to the main wharves, associated adjacent port 
                roads and facilities or equipment necessary for 
                transferring goods between sea-going vessels and land-
                based vehicles and for loading or unloading land-based 
                vehicles.
                    (D) Upgrading of goods transit, transfer, and 
                import and export processing and customs systems at the 
                port, including with respect to automation and 
                streamlining of required paperwork and permit 
                processing, and enhancement of port security, including 
                through the provision of training to the Liberian Port 
                Police and improvements to the perimeter security of 
                the entire port zone.
            (3) Water and sanitation.--Phased design and reconstruction 
        of potable water sources, such as reservoirs, wells, boreholes, 
        and water distribution and treatment systems, and sewerage 
        infrastructure, initially in areas with the highest population 
        densities, in order to provide widespread public access to 
        basic potable water and water sanitation.
            (4) Electricity sector.--Subject to subsection (e)(2), 
        phased reconstruction of electricity generating plants, and 
        associated electrical power transmission and distribution 
        networks and support for feasibility studies related to that 
        purpose, initially beginning in areas with the highest 
        population concentrations, with the eventual aim of connecting 
        all major population centers to a national power grid or 
        otherwise ensuring access to electrical power throughout 
        Liberia, to include the following:
                    (A) EPPII.--Continued support for the Emergency 
                Power Program II in the city of Monrovia, as necessary.
                    (B) Rural power.--Small electrical power generation 
                projects using biomass, micro-hydrological, solar, or 
                other small scale, renewable, or local resource 
                technologies to serve the short and medium-term needs 
                of key secondary and rural population centers in 
                Liberia.
                    (C) Medium and long term power.--Assistance in 
                support of the following:
                            (i) The design and reconstruction of a 
                        customer demand-driven, market-based, medium 
                        term electrical generation and distribution 
                        system serving Monrovia and adjacent urban 
                        zones.
                            (ii) An assessment of future electrical 
                        demand in key secondary population centers in 
                        Liberia and of the associated costs required 
                        for extending electrical power to these centers 
                        from main electrical power generation hubs in 
                        Buchanan, Yekepa, Monrovia, Mt. Coffee, or 
                        other potential generation sites.
                            (iii) Preparatory activities to be 
                        undertaken prior to the physical rehabilitation 
                        of the Mt. Coffee hydro-electric dam and plant 
                        facility, including an environmental impact 
                        assessment, a study of potential local socio-
                        economic and population displacement impacts, 
                        engineering and cost assessments of the 
                        facility, architectural and engineering designs 
                        necessary for its rehabilitation, and the 
                        formulation of a market-based, customer demand-
                        driven business plan aimed at ensuring that the 
                        rehabilitated facility can be operated on a 
                        financially sustainable basis.
            (5) Targeted job training and medium-term employment.--
        Expansion of support for vocational education programs 
        available to war-affected youth and ex-combatants, including 
        those who have previously received reintegration and job 
        training assistance but remain unemployed or underemployed, 
        among other populations, and support for the employment of 
        jobless war-affected youth and ex-combatants in public works 
        projects undertaken by the Liberian Government or its 
        development partners.
    (b) Economic Support Fund Assistance.--The President is authorized 
to provide assistance to Liberia for the following activities and 
purposes:
            (1) Public sector.--Assistance to support the establishment 
        of a government employee training institute, assistance to 
        support and enhance one or more existing Government of Liberia-
        designated public sector training organizations, such as the 
        Liberia Institute of Public Administration, or assistance for 
        both objectives, to be undertaken--
                    (A) for the purpose of making general and 
                specialized managerial, administrative, and service 
                delivery training available to employees of the 
                Government of Liberia, including employees of central 
                government ministries, independent agencies, 
                commissions, county and local governments, and other 
                civilian government entities, including judicial, 
                police, and security agencies;
                    (B) in partnership with one or more external 
                partner organizations that possess technical training 
                expertise in public sector training, such as the Les 
                Aspin Center for Government at Marquette University; 
                and
                    (C) with the objective of developing a permanent 
                Government of Liberia capacity to maintain a qualified 
                and well-trained public sector work force.
            (2) Good governance.--Technical assistance to enhance 
        Liberian Government accountability and effectiveness, improve 
        transparent and accountable fiscal management and revenue 
        collection and expenditure processes and institutions, and 
        ensure that central government ministries, functional agencies, 
        and other public entities develop an enhanced capacity to 
        provide efficient, cost-effective, ethical, and rule of law-
        based public goods and services to the Liberian people, 
        including support for related capacity development efforts 
        being pursued under the Governance and Economic Management 
        Assistance Program (GEMAP) during its remaining period of 
        operation, and support for economic good governance capacity 
        building programs or initiatives endorsed or implemented by the 
        Liberia Reconstruction and Development Committee (LRDC), its 
        Steering Committee, or its four Working Committees, as long as 
        the United States shall possess a formal role as a participant 
        or partner on the LRDC or any analogous Liberian entity that 
        may in the future succeed the LRDC, including by supporting 
        efforts to--
                    (A) improve budgeting and expenditure management;
                    (B) improve procurement practices and granting of 
                concessions;
                    (C) establish, implement, and institutionalize 
                processes to control corruption;
                    (D) provide technical support to key financial 
                management institutions of government;
                    (E) build the professional capacity of Liberian 
                public sector institutions and professionals; and
                    (F) foster consultations between the LRDC, other 
                Liberian Government organs, and representatives of 
                interested Liberian civil society groups and 
                nongovernmental organizations in matters pertaining to 
                public policy decision making in order to ensure that 
                diverse political and policy perspectives are 
                considered during the formulation of such policies.
            (3) United states education to build government capacity.--
        Assistance to facilitate educational exchanges to enable 
        Liberian Government officials and professional staff, to 
        include members of the executive, legislative, and judicial 
        branches of government, to pursue training or educational 
        opportunities in the United States, so long as such education 
        relates directly to their official duties.
            (4) Transitional justice and accountability.--Assistance to 
        support--
                    (A) the efforts of the Truth and Reconciliation 
                Commission of Liberia to investigate the causes of 
                Liberia's past conflicts, promote national 
                reconciliation, and ensure accountability for crimes 
                committed during those conflicts; and
                    (B) efforts by the Liberian Government, notably 
                those of the Liberian Solicitor General, to legally 
                track, freeze, and seek restitution to Liberia of 
                public funds determined to have been misappropriated by 
                officials of the present or past Liberian Governments.
    (c) International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement 
Assistance.--The President is authorized to provide assistance to 
Liberia for the following activities and purposes:
            (1) Police and security agencies.--Support for operational 
        capacity improvements for Liberia's national police and 
        security agencies, including the following:
                    (A) An instructional and administrative capacity 
                building program for Liberia's national Police Academy, 
                including funding for physical infrastructure for this 
                purpose, if necessary, in order to--
                            (i) enable the Police Academy to 
                        independently provide quality basic, recurrent, 
                        advanced, and specialized training for officers 
                        of the Liberia National Police; and
                            (ii) under an expanded mandate, to develop 
                        a capacity to provide similar training to other 
                        civilian Liberian security agencies, including 
                        the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, 
                        the Port Police, and the National Security 
                        Agency.
                    (B) An assessment of the current individual kit, 
                vehicular, and communication equipment needs of the 
                Liberia National Police, and provision of such assets, 
                if warranted, as determined by such an assessment.
            (2) Police technical assistance.--Support for the 
        following:
                    (A) Maintenance of the current Civilian Police 
                (CivPol) program of the Bureau of International 
                Narcotics and Liberia National Police Law Enforcement 
                Affairs of the Department of State, and a gradual 
                reformulation of the program, when and as necessary, in 
                order to deploy United States civilian police officers 
                and instructors to provide capacity building assistance 
                and advice to the Police Academy and Liberian National 
                Police in anticipation of, during, and following the 
                withdrawal and termination of the United Nations 
                Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
                    (B) An expansion of the Liberia National Police 
                Senior Advisory Team (S.A.T.) program of the Bureau of 
                International Narcotics and Liberia National Police Law 
                Enforcement Affairs of the Department of State, 
                including increased numbers of United States police 
                advisors deployed to--
                            (i) advise and help improve the capability 
                        of the Liberian National Police, including 
                        through the deployment of additional advisors 
                        in a roving capacity to support implementation 
                        of S.A.T. program goals at various levels of 
                        the Liberia National Police, including at the 
                        precinct level, and in the various counties of 
                        Liberia; and
                            (ii) advise and help improve the capability 
                        of the Liberian Port Police at the Freeport of 
                        Monrovia and other jurisdictions served by the 
                        Port Police, in coordination with other 
                        specialized port security training that may be 
                        provided to the Port Police.
                    (C) Maintenance of the current United States 
                Liberia National Police Emergency Response Unit (ERU) 
                support program until such time as the ERU is able to 
                function independently in the absence of United States 
                or other donor technical assistance.
            (3) Justice sector.--Support and expansion of the current 
        Justice Sector Support Liberia (JSSL) technical assistance 
        program of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law 
        Enforcement Affairs of the Department of State in order to--
                    (A) broaden the impact of JSSL assistance programs 
                in Monrovia, and to extend its scope and impact to the 
                county level;
                    (B) expand access to the judicial system by 
                establishing or supporting current programs to provide 
                legal information services to indigent persons, expand 
                human rights-focused training for members of the 
                judiciary, justice ministry, penal system personnel, 
                police, traditional leaders, and communities 
                experiencing high levels of rights violations, and to 
                ensure that cases of alleged violations of human rights 
                and other criminal actions by police officials or 
                judicial or penal system personnel are justly and fully 
                adjudicated; and
                    (C) promote police officer professionalism, 
                knowledge of ethical and human rights norms, and 
                interaction with civil society groups, in part by 
                conducting a rapid field assessment of the capacity of 
                Liberian nongovernmental law enforcement capacity 
                building organizations, including the Liberia National 
                Law Enforcement Association (LINLEA), the Liberia 
                Female Law Enforcement Association (LIFLEA), and the 
                Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL), to 
                conduct training and educational workshops for Liberian 
                law enforcement personnel and, if an assessed 
                organization is determined on the basis of such an 
                assessment to be capable of conducting such educational 
                efforts, by providing assistance to expand and enhance 
                such capabilities.
    (d) Role of Liberian NGOs, Businesses, and Other Entities.--It is 
the sense of Congress that a substantial portion of United States 
assistance to Liberia should be used to build the capacity of Liberian 
nongovernmental organizations and businesses and to foster the growth 
of market-based economic competition, and that therefore, to the 
maximum extent practicable, the President should provide assistance 
authorized under this section through Liberian nongovernmental 
organizations, businesses, and other Liberian entities, in part through 
the use of a locally-accessible, public bid competition system to 
assign contracts for the delivery of goods and services funded by 
United States assistance programs in Liberia.
    (e) Conditions on Assistance.--
            (1) In general.--Assistance authorized under this section 
        may be made available to Liberia only if--
                    (A) the Government of Liberia requests the 
                assistance;
                    (B) the Government of Liberia and the Government of 
                the United States consult with each other on all 
                proposed projects to be carried out using the 
                assistance;
                    (C) the Government of Liberia integrates the 
                assistance into its strategic planning and agrees to 
                assume responsibility for future recurrent funding and 
                management of programs receiving United States 
                assistance authorized under this section; and
                    (D) the President certifies to Congress that the 
                United States occupies a formal role as a participant 
                or partner on the Liberia Reconstruction and 
                Development Committee (LRDC), its Steering Committee, 
                and its four Working Committees, or on any other 
                similar Liberian Government entity established to 
                coordinate donor development assistance.
            (2) Limitations relating to the electricity sector.--In 
        order to preserve and efficiently utilize Liberia's limited 
        public revenues and technically proficient and trained 
        personnel, assistance provided under subsection (a)(4)--
                    (A) should, to the extent practicable, fund 
                programs undertaken by the Liberia Electricity 
                Corporation, the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy, 
                or any related, currently existing public entities with 
                a mandate pertaining to the financing, regulation, 
                generation, transmission, or sale of electrical power; 
                and
                    (B) may be used to fund needs assessments and 
                feasibility studies pertaining to the potential 
                establishment of new government electrical sector 
                entities, such as a St. Paul River Authority, a Rural 
                and Renewable Energy Agency, or a transmission 
                concessionaire for a proposed high voltage transmission 
                corridors, but shall not be used to directly fund the 
                establishment of such entities.

SEC. 6. REPORT.

    Not less than once at the end of each of the fiscal years 2009 
through 2013 for which funds to implement this Act are appropriated, 
the President shall transmit to Congress a report on the implementation 
of this Act, including the progress of and prospects for development in 
Liberia as a result of United States assistance provided under this 
Act.

SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) In General.--To carry out this Act, there is authorized to be 
appropriated to the President $225,000,000 for fiscal years 2009 
through 2013.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--Of the amounts appropriated pursuant to the 
authorization of appropriations under subsection (a), it is the sense 
of Congress that--
            (1) 65 percent of such amounts should be allocated to carry 
        out Development Assistance programs authorized under section 
        5(a);
            (2) 17.5 percent of such amounts should be allocated to 
        carry out Economic Support Fund Assistance programs authorized 
        under section 5(b), of which--
                    (A) 25 percent should be used to carry out section 
                5(b)(1);
                    (B) 2.5 percent should be used to carry out section 
                5(b)(4)(A); and
                    (C) 2.5 percent should be used to carry out section 
                5(b)(4)(B); and
            (3) 17.5 percent of such amounts should be allocated to 
        carry out International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement 
        Assistance programs authorized under section 5(c), of which 25 
        percent should be used to carry out section 5(c)(1).
    (c) Availability and Related Provisions.--Amounts appropriated 
pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under subsection (a)--
            (1) are authorized to remain available until expended; and
            (2) are in addition to amounts otherwise available for such 
        purposes.

SEC. 8. RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER AUTHORITIES.

    The authority to provide assistance in this Act shall be in 
addition to any other authority to provide assistance to the Government 
of Liberia.

SEC. 9. SUNSET.

    The authorities provided in this Act shall expire on October 1, 
2013.
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