[House Report 107-142]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



107th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session                                                    107-142

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      FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING, AND RELATED PROGRAMS 
                       APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2002

                                _______
                                

 July 17, 2001.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed

                                _______
                                

    Mr. Kolbe, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the 
                               following

                              R E P O R T

                             together with

                            ADDITIONAL VIEWS

                        [To accompany H.R. 2506]

    The Committee on Appropriations submits the following 
report in explanation of the accompanying bill making 
appropriations for Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and 
Related Programs, and for sundry independent agencies and 
corporations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and 
for other purposes.

                        INDEX TO BILL AND REPORT

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                                                               Page

                                                            Bill Report
Summary of the Bill........................................
                                                                      2
Committee Recommendations..................................
                                                                      2
Title I--Export and Investment Assistance:
        Export-Import Bank of the United States............     2
                                                                      3
        Overseas Private Investment Corporation............     4
                                                                      4
Trade and Development Agency...............................     5
                                                                      5
Title II--Bilateral Economic Assistance:
        Child Survival and Health Programs Fund............     6
                                                                      6
        Development Assistance.............................    10
                                                                     19
        International Disaster Assistance..................    11
                                                                     35
        Transition Initiatives.............................    11
                                                                     37
        Development Credit Authority.......................    12
                                                                     37
        Payment to the Foreign Service Retirement and 
            Disability Fund................................    13
                                                                     37
        AID Operating Expenses.............................    13
                                                                     38
        Operating Expenses of the Agency for International 
            Development, Office of the Inspector General...    14
                                                                     40
        Economic Support Fund..............................    14
                                                                     40
        International Fund for Ireland.....................    16
                                                                     48
        Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States    16
                                                                     48
        Assistance for the Independent States of the Former 
            Soviet Union...................................    19
                                                                     51
Independent Agencies:
        Inter-American Foundation..........................    22
                                                                     56
        African Development Foundation.....................    23
                                                                     56
        Peace Corps........................................    23
                                                                     56
Department of State:
        International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement    24
                                                                     56
        Migration and Refugee Assistance...................    25
                                                                     60
        Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund....    26
                                                                     61
        Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and 
            Related Programs...............................    27
                                                                     62
Department of the Treasury:
        International affairs technical assistance.........    28
                                                                     63
        Debt restructuring.................................    29
                                                                     64
        United States community adjustment and investment 
            program........................................
                                                                     66
Title III--Military Assistance:
        International Military Education and Training......    32
                                                                     66
        Foreign Military Financing Program.................    33
                                                                     68
        Peacekeeping Operations............................    36
                                                                     70
Title IV--Multilateral Economic Assistance:
        Global Environment Facility........................    36
                                                                     70
        International Development Association (IDA)........    37
                                                                     71
        Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency...........    37
                                                                     71
        Inter-American Investment Corporation..............    38
                                                                     73
        Asian Development Fund (ADF).......................    38
                                                                     73
        African Development Bank...........................    38
                                                                     74
        African Development Fund (AFDF)....................    39
                                                                     74
        European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 
            (EBRD).........................................    39
                                                                     74
        International Fund for Agricultural Development 
            (IFAD).........................................    39
                                                                     74
Department of State:
        International Organizations and Programs...........    40
                                                                     75
Title V--General Provisions:
        House of Representatives Report Requirements.......
                                                                     80

                          summary of the bill

    The Committee has recommended foreign assistance and export 
financing funding at a level that is $458,000 below the 
Administration's fiscal year 2002 request of $15,167,751,000 in 
discretionary budget authority. The resulting total of 
$15,167,293,000 in discretionary appropriations is needed to 
meet the essential requirements of the United States and its 
President in conducting foreign policy and meeting urgent 
humanitarian needs abroad.
    The section 302(b) allocation for foreign operations, 
export financing, and related programs is $15,168,000,000 in 
discretionary budget authority. The Committee recommendation is 
slightly below the section 302(b) allocation and is 
$304,005,000 above the 2001 level.

                       committee recommendations

    For export and investment assistance programs the Committee 
has recommended a gross total of $906,000,000, which is 
partially offset by collections and a negative subsidy totaling 
$301,000,000. The subsidy appropriation for the Export-Import 
Bank is $753,323,000, and the Trade and Development Agency is 
funded at $50,000,000. Consistent with the President's budget 
request, the Committee has provided no new subsidy 
appropriations for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
    The Committee has recommended $1,169,796,000 of the 
$1,209,796,000 requested for the international financial 
institutions. The overall level is $22,917,000 above the fiscal 
year 2001 enacted level and $40,000,000 below the request.
    For development and humanitarian assistance, the Committee 
has recommended a total of $3,356,380,000 of which 
$1,387,000,000 is for child survival and health programs. 
Another $1,098,000,000 is for longer-term development 
assistance. The Committee has also included $200,000,000 for 
disasters worldwide and $40,000,000 for transition initiatives. 
The Committee has included $224,000,000 for debt restructuring 
for poor countries and a tropical forestry debt relief program.
    The Committee has continued its highly effective Child 
Survival and Health Programs Fund. The account is designed to 
ensure that there will not be reductions in these vital 
programs as the overall bilateral assistance program is 
constrained. The emphasis is on programs that directly affect 
younger children and on accelerating efforts to eradicate 
diseases that threaten younger children and caregivers alike. 
The account now includes population assistance, while basic 
education for children will be funded through the Development 
Assistance account. It does provide for a grant to UNICEF at a 
level of $120,000,000.
    The Committee has included a total of $768,000,000 in 
assistance to the Independent States of the Former Soviet 
Union, and $600,000,000 for Eastern Europe and the Baltic 
States.
    The Committee has recommended a total of $730,000,000 for 
refugee programs.
    For economic assistance under the Economic Support Fund, 
the Committee has recommended a total of $2,199,000,000.
    The Committee has recommended $311,000,000 for a 
Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism and Demining account which 
includes funding for the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund, 
anti-terrorism assistance, demining activities, United States 
participation in the Korean Energy Development Organization 
(KEDO), and the U.S. voluntary contribution to the 
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
    For Foreign Military Financing, the Committee has 
recommended a grant program of $3,627,000,000.

               TITLE I--EXPORT AND INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE


                Export-Import Bank of the United States


                         subsidy appropriation




Fiscal year 2001 level................................      $865,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................       633,323,000
Committee recommendation..............................       753,323,000


                        administrative expenses




Fiscal year 2001 level................................       $62,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................        65,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................        63,000,000


    The Committee is recommending a subsidy appropriation for 
the Export-Import Bank of $753,323,000 and an appropriation of 
$63,000,000 for administrative expenses. Taken together, the 
recommended appropriation for the Eximbank is $116,677,000 less 
than the fiscal year 2001 level and $118,000,000 above the 
request.
    Of the $231,677,000 cut to the subsidy appropriation 
requested by the President, approximately $112,000,000 is a 
reduction in amounts needed by the Eximbank due to changes in 
the risk factors as estimated by the Office of Management and 
Budget and required under the Federal Credit Reform Act. The 
Committee recommends restoring $120,000,000 to the requested 
subsidy appropriation. The Committee expects that this level of 
subsidy will support a projected level of Eximbank 
authorizations of $12,400,000,000 in 2002, approximately 
$1,000,000,000 higher than the projected authorizations 
supported by the request, and approximately $2,000,000,000 
higher than the estimated fiscal year 2001 levels.
    The Committee has continued prior year language limiting 
the export of nuclear technology or fuel to certain countries.
    The Committee provided no additional funds for a tied-aid 
``war chest''. The estimated $321,800,000 remaining ``war 
chest'' balance for tied-aid purposes may be used to support 
loans. If more funds are needed for the war chest, the 
Committee will promptly consider any additional requests from 
the President.
    The Committee is concerned about proposals in the 
President's request including a combination of higher fees, 
less guarantee coverage, and value-added tests. The Committee 
urges the Chairman of the Eximbank to conduct test trials of 
these proposals on a limited basis and directs Eximbank to 
report back the findings to the Committee on a semi-annual 
basis.
    The Committee is concerned about the U.S. position in OECD 
negotiations for an agreement on ``unproductive expenditures'' 
with the aim of preventing a recurrence of unsustainable debt 
burdens in Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs). The 
Committee urges the Administration to take a position in the 
OECD negotiations that is not counter to US foreign policy 
goals and debt relief initiatives.

                Overseas Private Investment Corporation


                           noncredit account




Fiscal year 2001 level................................       $38,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................        38,608,000
Committee recommendation..............................        38,608,000


                            program account




Fiscal year 2001 level................................       $24,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................  ................
Committee recommendation..............................  ................


    The Committee is recommending no subsidy appropriation for 
the Overseas Private Investment Corporation's (OPIC) direct and 
guaranteed loan credit programs, and it is recommending 
$38,608,000 for administrative expenses, the same level as the 
request.
    OPIC has $24,000,000 in carryover funds available to use in 
2002, therefore the request and the Committee recommendation 
for no appropriation should result in no reduction in the 
program level from 2001. OPIC subsidy appropriations are 
available for 2 years, so there will be no carryover into 2003, 
and regular appropriations will be required again next year.
    The Committee continues prior year language required by the 
Federal Credit Reform Act and addressing representation 
expenses and availability of funds.
    As in last year's report, the Committee directs OPIC to 
continue to provide on a semi-annual basis written reports 
including the following information for each investment fund: 
the identity, selection process, and professional background of 
current and past managers; the fees and compensation currently 
provided to senior management; the amount of OPIC guarantees 
and actual investments made at the end of the previous month; 
and any additional observations that OPIC may want to include.

                        opic and the environment

    The Committee encourages OPIC to provide increased support 
within the power and energy sector for investments using 
American technology that promotes a cleaner environment. 
Special attention should be given to the use of proven 
geothermal, small hydro, wind, biomass and solar technologies. 
The Committee urges OPIC to continue over the next year to 
review and strengthen its policies regarding the energy and 
power sectors as they relate to the environment and private 
sector infrastructure. The ongoing review should reflect the 
comments of Congress and the public, as well as the Executive 
branch.

                  Funds Appropriated to the President


                      Trade and Development Agency




Fiscal year 2001 level................................       $50,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................        50,024,000
Committee recommendation..............................        50,024,000


    The Committee is recommending $50,024,000 for the Trade and 
Development Agency (TDA), an increase of $24,000 above the 2001 
level and the same as the request. In collaboration with the 
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, TDA is 
encouraged to support United States participation in the 
development of national technical standards compatible with 
American goods and services in key transition country markets.

                TITLE II--BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE


                  Funds Appropriated to the President


                  Agency for International Development


          Revised structure of development assistance accounts

    The Committee provides two accounts for longer-term 
development assistance programs managed by the Agency for 
International Development. As in fiscal year 2001 and as 
requested in the President's budget, the bill includes an 
account for child survival and disease prevention and treatment 
activities. The Committee recommends adding reproductive health 
to this account in 2002. The bill also includes a separate 
general development assistance account for basic education, 
agriculture, energy, environment, trade and other development 
programs in Africa, Latin America and Asia. For the first time 
in 5 years, the Development Assistance account includes basic 
education for children.
    Two existing regional accounts jointly managed by the 
Department of State and the Agency for International 
Development are included elsewhere in title II under ``Other 
Bilateral Assistance''. The Committee utilizes the regional 
accounts to fund most economic and political cooperation with 
Russia and the independent states of the former Soviet Union as 
well as the former captive nations of the Soviet Empire in 
Central Europe.
    There are two other structural changes from the budget 
request. Resuming a long-standing practice, the Committee again 
includes separate accounts under ``Independent Agencies'' for 
the Inter-American Foundation and the African Development 
Foundation. The President's request proposed to fund the 
foundations through transfers from ``Development Assistance''.
    As it has for the past six years, the Committee again 
includes funding for long-term development assistance in sub-
Saharan Africa, other than child survival and health programs, 
in the global ``Development Assistance'' account. It encourages 
the use of the special authorities contained in the 
``Development Fund for Africa'' authorization for AID 
activities in Africa.
    Finally, authority is provided for the United States to 
make contributions from the Child Survival and Health Programs 
Fund to three international health funds: The Vaccine Fund 
[associated with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and 
Immunizations (GAVI)]; the International AIDS Vaccine 
Initiative; and a proposed global trust fund to fight HIV/AIDS, 
malaria, and tuberculosis. The President's budget request would 
fund the latter fund as a separate account under the Department 
of the Treasury.

                      Global Development Alliance

    The Committee is supportive of AID's efforts to enhance its 
coordination with private companies, foundations, faith-based 
groups, and volunteer organizations. The Committee has 
encouraged, and AID has undertaken, such partnerships for many 
years. The Committee is intrigued by the outlines of the Global 
Development Alliance (GDA) proposal, which is characterized as 
an attempt to change the way AID implements its assistance 
mandates. Until sufficient details about the proposed scope and 
operations of the GDA are made available to the Committee for 
its review and, if necessary, further consultation with the 
Agency, no program funds are available for reservation of set-
asides from this or prior year Acts to implement GDA. The 
Committee has no objection to the use of reasonable amounts 
from ``AID Operating Expenses'' to properly define and identify 
the proposed uses of GDA.

                Child Survival and Health Programs Fund





Fiscal year 2001 level................................      $963,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................       991,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................     1,387,000,000


    The Committee recommends $1,387,000,000 for the renamed 
``Child Survival and Health Programs Fund'', an amount that is 
$396,000,000 above the request under the fiscal year 2001 
account structure and $169,000,000 above the amount enacted for 
2001 under the revised account structure. The recommendation 
includes authority for United States contributions to three 
international health funds. The Child Survival and Disease 
Programs Fund is a Congressional initiative that the President 
now includes in the budget request. As a Committee priority 
this year, a detailed justification of the recommended increase 
is presented below.

                    Overview of HIV/AIDS Assistance

    As it has for many years, the Committee continues to 
support the fight against HIV/AIDS through United States 
Government (bilateral) assistance programs managed by the 
Agency for International Development. In other appropriation 
bills, additional support for the fight against HIV/AIDS is 
provided through the Centers for Disease Control and the 
National Institutes of Health. AID works with both the CDC and 
the NIH in its overseas operations. All of these bilateral 
programs are fully operational today; together they are the 
worldwide leaders in the field.
    The Committee has provided a total of $474,000,000 in this 
bill for HIV/AIDS, of which $434,000,000 is funded through the 
Child Survival and Health Programs Account. Another $40,000,000 
is provided, as requested in the President's budget, through 
other AID-managed accounts, such as the Economic Support Fund, 
International Disaster Assistance, and regional accounts for 
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. By comparison, last 
year the Committee recommended a total of $210,000,000 and the 
final conference agreement provided $315,000,000 in the bill 
for the same purpose. Overall, the fiscal 2002 recommendation 
of $474,000,000 for HIV/AIDS is $45,000,000 above the 
President's request of $429,000,000.
    Again this year the Committee recommendation allows for a 
transfer of funds to a proposed multilateral trust fund for 
health. The fund most likely to be established is a 
multilateral Health Trust Fund (allocated between 20 percent 
for TB and malaria and 80 percent for HIV/AIDS) advocated by 
the President of the United States and the Secretary General of 
the United Nations. The President has requested $100,000,000 
for this purpose, and full authority is provided herein to 
fulfill that request. The Committee assumes that $80,000,000 
will be made available for the trust fund proposal from the 
Child Survival and Health Programs Fund in this bill, of which 
$20,000,000 for malaria and TB is allocated under the ``Other 
Infectious Diseases'' category, and $60,000,000 is allocated 
under the ``HIV/AIDS'' category. The source for the remaining 
$20,000,000 for the proposed trust fund, as requested by the 
President, would be the unused $20,000,000 provided in last 
year's Child Survival and Disease Programs Fund for a World 
Bank HIV/AIDS trust fund.
    If the latest proposal for a multilateral trust fund for 
HIV/AIDS and related infectious diseases does not come to 
fruition within 12 months of enactment, the entire $80,000,000 
authorized for that purpose in this recommendation could be 
used promptly by the Agency for International Development for 
its ongoing bilateral programs to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and 
TB.

         Explanation for increase above fiscal year 2001 level

    The Committee's recommendation is higher than the 2001 
level because of three continuing developments over the past 
two years. First, there is a growing willingness in many poor 
and developing nations to address the threat each faces from 
tuberculosis/HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. A few more 
cases are being reported of nations reversing the spread of 
HIV/AIDS, but the Agency for International Development has 
placed too little attention on, and provides minimal support 
for halting, emerging epidemics. The Committee urges AID to 
focus on emerging concentrations of HIV, utilizing best 
practices used by nations and communities that have actually 
halted and reversed the number of victims.
    Secondly, private American foundations and international 
commercial vaccine producers are now working with AID, the 
World Health Organization, and UNICEF to save children by 
reducing the cost and increasing the supply of vaccines that 
are currently used mostly in industrial countries because of 
expense. Because of the investments funded by this account in 
prior years, absorptive capacity in a number of poor nations is 
beginning to increase to the extent that they can begin to 
limit the spread of TB/HIV and properly administer vaccines. 
Such improvements in absorptive capacity cannot be sustained or 
extended without additional investment in surveillance and 
institutional capacity.
    Finally, the Committee is aware that the number of 
vulnerable children in need of international and local support 
is increasingly evident in many regions. In Africa, war and the 
impact of TB/HIV is generating a generation of child soldiers 
and orphans in several nations. International assistance may 
help adult survivors socialize and educate such vulnerable 
children, although at present there are few precedents for 
effective care and training in such dire situations. However, 
communities affected by HIV are only now beginning to become a 
major focus of United States development strategies. In Eastern 
Europe, Central Eurasia, and Southeast Asia, the sharply 
declining economic situation among many families in recent 
years has left more children in poorly funded orphanages, 
living on the streets, or becoming victims of sexual predators 
and drug dealers. Solutions to the tragedy of vulnerable 
children must be local, but voluntary organizations whose 
private donations are supplemented by AID can often expedite 
those solutions and provide desperately needed material 
support.

      essential role of free market economic growth in development

    As popular as the Child Survival and Health Programs Fund 
is with the American people, the Committee has resisted appeals 
to increase its funding more rapidly. The Child Survival 
account is only one part of the U.S. effort to help others work 
toward the standards of living most Americans have achieved 
already. The Committee recognizes that the long-term benefits 
of the Fund are limited unless there are future jobs and income 
for the children we help when they grow up to be adults. 
Continuing AID support for free market approaches to economic 
growth remains essential to complete the work of child 
survival. In each poor country helped by American child 
survival activities, a balanced assistance program also 
requires cooperation to provide reasonably priced and reliable 
food, water, cleaner power, and communications as well as 
credit.

         Allocation of Child Survival and Health Programs Fund

    Unless modifications are subsequently notified and agreed 
to by the Committees on Appropriations, fiscal year 2002 
appropriations for the Child Survival and Health Programs Fund 
are deemed to be allocated as follows:


                       Category                            Allocation

Child Survival and Maternal Health....................      $295,000,000
Vulnerable children...................................        25,000,000
HIV/AIDS..............................................       434,000,000
Other Infectious Diseases.............................   \1\ 155,000,000
Reproductive Health/Voluntary Family Planning.........   \1\ 358,000,000
Grant to UNICEF.......................................       120,000,000
                                                       -----------------
    Total in this account.............................     1,387,000,000
Other CSD activities in ESF...........................        50,000,000
CSD activities in regional accounts...................        45,000,000
                                                       -----------------
    Total in all bilateral accounts...................    1,482,000,000

\1\ The two categories indicated include undetermined amounts for TB
  prevention among persons with HIV/AIDS and for treatment and
  management of sexually transmitted diseases that also may be included
  in the HIV/AIDS category.

   Definition of the Budget Categories Within the Child Survival and 
                          Health Programs Fund

    In order to clarify the range of activities categorized in 
the above allocations, the Committee, in consultation with AID, 
provides the following explanation:

                 1. CHILD SURVIVAL AND MATERNAL HEALTH

Primary causes of morbidity and mortality for children and mothers

    Supporting key child health and survival interventions that 
focus on prevention, treatment, and control of the five primary 
childhood killers: diarrheal disease, acute respiratory 
infection, malnutrition, malaria (directed primarily at 
children) and vaccine preventable diseases;
    Introducing environmental health interventions to prevent 
the spread of childhood diseases from environmental factors 
such as contaminated water; and
    Improving maternal health to protect the outcome of 
pregnancy, neonatal and young infants, and to save the lives of 
mothers, by improving maternal nutrition, promoting birth 
preparedness, improving safe delivery and postpartum care, and 
managing and treating life-threatening complications of 
pregnancy and childbirth.

Micronutrients

    Supplementing, fortifying and modifying dietary behaviors 
to increase intake of key micronutrients, particularly vitamin 
A, iron, iodine, folic acid, and zinc.

Polio eradication

    Partnering to strengthen polio eradication and vaccination 
programs;
    Supplemental polio immunization campaigns and improving 
routine immunization; and
    Improving acute flaccid paralysis surveillance, response 
and linkages with other disease control programs.

                       2. Vulnerable Children \1\

    Care and protection of children who are displaced or 
vulnerable with an emphasis on strengthening family and 
community capacity in identifying and responding to special 
physical, social, educational, and emotional needs including:
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    \1\ Other accounts (e.g., Development Assistance and Economic 
Support Fund) support programs addressing the issues of children 
affected by violence and/or trafficked for illicit purposes.
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    Under the Displaced Children and Orphans Fund, children 
affected by war, including child soldiers, as well as orphaned, 
abandoned and street children;
    Blind children;
    Orphanages in Europe and Eurasia;
    Trafficking of young women and children; and
    Abusive child labor.

                              3. HIV/AIDS

Prevention

    Expanding behavior change interventions to prevent and 
mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS;
    Preventing and managing sexually transmitted diseases 
(STDs);
    Preventing and managing TB and other opportunistic diseases 
related to HIV/AIDS; and
    Reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS.

Care and Treatment

    Increasing the capacity of public and private sector 
organizations, particularly at the home and community level, to 
prevent HIV transmission and support persons living with HIV/
AIDS, their caregivers, families and survivors;
    Treating opportunistic infections, primarily tuberculosis, 
in persons living with HIV/AIDS;
    Conducting pilot programs for the care and treatment of 
persons living with HIV/AIDS;
    Entering into cooperative agreements and parallel financing 
alliances with the private sector to obtain needed commodities 
for sustained treatment of persons living with HIV/AIDS; and
    Establishing microcredit programs designed for communities 
with a high incidence of persons living with HIV/AIDS.
    Caring for infected children, and for communities severely 
affected by HIV/AIDS.

Surveillance

    Increasing the quality, availability, and use of evaluation 
and surveillance information.

                      4. OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Tuberculosis (TB)

    Improving control of tuberculosis at the country level by 
expanding the application of the Directly Observed Therapy 
Short Course (DOTS) strategy and strengthening local capacity;
    Developing and testing alternative approaches for TB 
control;
    Improving surveillance of TB and of multi-drug resistant TB 
strains;
    Conducting research to identify improved technologies/
methods for TB diagnosis and treatment; and
    Preventing and treating TB in persons with HIV/AIDS and 
their caregivers.

Malaria

    Improving prevention, control and treatment of malaria and 
other infectious diseases that are not currently vaccine 
preventable.

Antimicrobial resistance and infectious diseases surveillance

    Improving interventions to reduce the spread of 
antimicrobial resistance; and
    Improving capacity for surveillance and response for 
infectious diseases, including at the local level.

            5. Reproductive Health/voluntary family planning

    Expanding access to, and improving the quality of voluntary 
family planning programs;
    Supporting related reproductive health services such as 
integrating family planning with antenatal, neonatal, and post-
partum care, integrating family planning with HIV/AIDS and STD 
programs, eliminating female genital cutting, and supporting 
post-abortion care;
    Providing information and services for families 
experiencing difficulty in conceiving children, including 
programs to treat non-infectious diseases that impede 
fertility;
    Forecasting, purchasing, and supplying contraceptive 
commodities and other materials necessary for reproductive 
health programs; and
    Fostering conditions to create favorable policy 
environments, improve quality, strengthen systems, and 
contribute to the sustainability of family planning and other 
reproductive health programs.

    Note: The population funds of the Child Survival and Health 
Programs Fund are not to be used to finance, support, or be 
attributed to the performance or promotion of abortion as a 
method of family planning, or to pay for biomedical research 
which relates to the performance of abortion as a method of 
family planning (although epidemiological or descriptive 
research to assess the incidence, extent or consequences of 
abortions is permitted).

           Promoting the Integrity of the Child Survival Fund

    The previous AID Administrator appointed a coordinator of 
activities related to the Child Survival and Disease Programs 
Fund, as the Committee directed two years ago. The Committee 
expects the current Administrator to appoint a coordinator for 
all child survival and health programs managed by AID, or, 
alternatively, to establish a separate bureau to manage central 
programs, provide technical support to child survival and 
health programs in the field, and to act as liaison with the 
Committee on all child survival and health programs and 
activities managed by AID, regardless of the funding source.
    More remains to be done by AID management. The budget 
justification lacks detailed information, necessary for 
purposes of being used as a baseline for reprogramming and 
notification proposes, concerning numerous activities that 
would be funded from the Child Survival and Health Programs 
Fund.
    Proposed activities included in the fiscal year 2002 budget 
justification combine programs, projects, and activities funded 
from this account with programs, projects, and activities 
funded from other funding sources. There is inadequate 
information, with regard to many ongoing and proposed 
activities, to allow the Committee to identify the differences 
in utilization of the individual accounts. The May 2002 AID 
documents characterized as a budget justification will not be 
accepted as valid for fiscal year 2002 programs for purposes of 
section 515 until supplemental budget narratives and tables are 
transmitted to the Committee in the proper form.
    The Committee is again including bill language that 
prohibits the use of certain funds in this account for 
nonproject assistance, or cash grants, to governments. The 
provision of cash grants as general budget support for 
governments is no longer an appropriate development tool, given 
current funding constraints. To the extent that cash grants are 
necessary for countries in transition or for specific foreign 
policy goals, funds are available through the ``Economic 
Support Fund''.

        child survival and maternal health: former Soviet Union

    The Committee continues to be concerned about the low 
priority assigned to declining maternal and environmental 
health conditions and the increasing incidence of TB/HIV/AIDS 
in Russia, Ukraine, and the Central Asian republics. The 
positive results achieved with the small amounts already spent 
for such programs in recent years have been dramatic. More can 
be done with Global Bureau core funds to complement funding 
provided by the regional accounts. The Committee has included 
bill language regarding a minimum level of $45,000,000 to be 
allocated for child survival and health programs within the 
separate account, ``Assistance to the Independent States of the 
Former Soviet Union.''

           child survival and maternal health: micronutrients

    The Committee supports increased funding for the vitamin A, 
iodine and other micronutrient deficiency programs. More than 
250 million children are vitamin A deficient, increasing their 
risk of severe illness, blindness and death. Vitamin A is a 
low-cost solution to many easily preventable diseases. The 
Committee recommends that AID make every effort to provide 
$30,000,000 from all accounts for the overall United States 
micronutrient program.
    The Committee notes that iodine deficiency disorder (IDD) 
is the leading preventable cause of mental retardation in 
children. The major remaining regions with iodine deficiency 
are in the former Soviet Union and southeast Europe and regions 
of Africa and South Asia. Private funds raised by Kiwanis 
International and implemented by UNICEF are already saving 10 
million children a year from mental retardation. The Committee 
recommends that in order to help meet the IDD partnership 
goals, AID provide a total of at least $2,500,000 from the 
Child Survival and Health Programs Fund and $2,225,000 from 
regional accounts for the Kiwanis/UNICEF IDD partnership 
program.

         child survival and maternal health: polio eradication

    The Committee recommendation includes within the child 
survival and maternal health allocation not less than 
$25,000,000 for the final phases of the program initiated by 
the Committee in fiscal year 1996 to eradicate polio by 2006.

     child survival and maternal health: vaccines and immunization

    The Committee is aware that at least three million children 
die each year because they do not receive life-saving 
immunizations. Over many years, the Committee has funded 
procurement of polio and other childhood vaccines directly 
through AID and indirectly through the grant to UNICEF. Last 
year the Congress recommended that up to $50,000,000 be 
provided to the Global Fund for Children's Vaccines (now The 
Vaccine Fund) in support of the Global Alliance for Children's 
Vaccines to help close the gap between children who receive 
immunizations and those who do not. The Global Fund provides 
resources to support the international, public and private 
partnership recommendations provided to GAVI. Since its 
initiation a year ago, more than $300,000,000 for 21 countries 
has been committed for immunization programs--potentially 
saving as many as one million lives a year. The Committee 
strongly supports continued funding for this program, and 
recommends that up to $60,000,000 be provided to The Vaccine 
Fund in fiscal year 2002.

                          Vulnerable Children

    The Committee directs AID to allocate $25,000,000 for 
displaced children and orphans and blind children in fiscal 
year 2002. A substantial part of these and other available 
resources are to be used in Romania, the former Yugoslavia, 
Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, and Mongolia. AID has recently 
initiated innovative programs in most of these countries at the 
urging of Congress, and the Committee directs AID to adequately 
fund these programs in fiscal year 2002.
    Care for displaced children and orphans is limited in these 
countries and in parts of Africa. Basic medical supplies are 
scarce at most institutions around the world. In some cultures, 
orphans are considered outcasts, especially those with 
disabilities of any type. Some children can become healthy with 
proper medical attention and returned to their families or 
placed with domestic or foreign families through adoption.
    Families with mentally or physically disabled children 
would benefit from community support programs such as Special 
Olympics.
    The Committee encourages AID to expand its support of 
private voluntary organizations, which seek to improve the 
health and quality of life of such children. To reinforce the 
suggestion in last year's report concerning these particularly 
vulnerable children, the Committee urges AID to provide up to 
$2,000,000 for support of organizations working in this sector.
    Older children permanently placed in orphanages are often 
dismissed from state care and thrown out on the streets to 
survive without skills. Most teenage orphans find that their 
only chance for survival is to participate in criminal acts, 
including prostitution and selling drugs. United States 
assistance in establishing a limited number of vocational-
technical centers will teach these orphans the necessary skills 
to become productive members of society.
    According to the World Health Organization there are 1.5 
million blind children around the world. Another 7 million 
children suffer from low levels of vision. The Committee 
recognizes the work being done by Helen Keller Worldwide and 
other organizations to assist blind children and children with 
low levels of vision. These children can be helped through 
simple and inexpensive methods of prevention and low cost care. 
The committee recommends that the AID program for children's 
blindness be funded at a level of $1,300,000.

                          hiv/aids prevention

    The Committee for several years has provided funding and 
encouragement to limit impact of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic 
in the developing world and Eastern and Central Europe. 
However, recent epidemiological reports indicate that the 
pandemic continues to worsen dramatically, particularly in 
south and southeast Asia and southern Africa. In response, 
several other donor nations are increasing their global AIDS 
activities and international institutions, notably the World 
Bank, are moving AIDS and other infectious diseases to their 
priority list. Recently, the Group of Industrial Nations and 
the United Nations have become more fully engaged.
    As with all AID programs, the fight against HIV/AIDS 
requires ``good development partners''. The rapid increase in 
HIV infection in many poor countries can be attributed, in 
part, to government leaders' refusal to publicly acknowledge 
the crisis and to their slowness in dedicating resources to 
fight it. Government leaders have a responsibility to their 
citizens to foster awareness and education, the causes of 
transmission, and the scientifically proven methods to combat 
it. All AID country strategies for HIV programs must include 
components to encourage behavioral, cultural and social change.
    The United States has long led the world's response to HIV/
AIDS and will expand its financial and leadership commitment. 
For fiscal year 2002, the Committee directs AID to increase 
funding for all of its international AIDS and related TB 
activities from not less than $315,000,000 in 2001 to at least 
$474,000,000 in 2002. Funding for UNAIDS should also be 
increased above its current level. Priority uses of the 
additional resources should include microbicides, reduction of 
mother-child transmission, support for affected orphans, and 
TB. As in past years, AID should utilize to the maximum extent 
community-based, nongovernmental organizations that have ``on 
the ground'' prevention and care programs.
    The Committee recognizes that there is an urgent need for 
the development of HIV and STD prevention methods within 
women's personal control. Topical microbicides, currently in 
trial stages in a number of countries, have emerged in the last 
decade as a promising new technology for preventing STDs, 
including HIV. Using its existing infrastructure and expertise, 
AID can contribute a great deal to enhancing the feasibility of 
successful clinical trials in developing countries. At the 
urging of Congress, AID substantially increased its investment 
in microbicides research and development in 2001, and the 
Committee urges AID to make these investments an integral part 
of bilateral U.S. HIV/AIDS assistance. The Committee directs 
AID to devote not less than $15,000,000 from all accounts to 
microbicides research and development.
    The Committee recommends that USAID devote appropriate 
resources to support efforts to build capacity of the nursing 
workforce in sub-Saharan Africa. The Committee recognizes the 
utility of a sound nursing corps in addressing AIDS not only as 
a disease, but as a public health problem. Nurses and other 
health workers are often the first and only contact the 
population of developing countries have with the health care 
system. In their role, not only can they assist in diagnosis 
and treatment of AIDS, but also in fostering behavioral change 
and developing care systems that contain the spread of the 
disease. Also, the Committee continues to support efforts to 
provide a safer blood supply and single-use needles in the 
Republic of South Africa and other countries impacted by HIV/
AIDS. These efforts should include evaluation of promising 
blood decontamination technologies.
    The fight against HIV/AIDS takes place on many fronts. More 
education about causes, effect and treatment of HIV/AIDS is 
needed in many regions, especially in Sub-Sahara Africa and the 
Caribbean. The use of unbiased, accurate, and culturally 
sensitive media is one way to improve the spread of information 
on HIV/AIDS. The Committee supports programs for independent 
media training and public service announcements to meet these 
needs.

                      hiv/aids: care and treatment

    The Committee is aware of and supports AID's pilot programs 
in the care and treatment of persons with HIV/AIDS and expects 
that the number of these pilot programs will expand as 
successful models are developed. The Committee encourages AID 
to enter into cooperative agreements and parallel financing 
alliances with the private sector to obtain needed commodities 
for sustained treatment of persons with HIV/AIDS.

          hiv/aids: burma and the resurgence in southeast asia

    The Committee is concerned that HIV/AIDS is spreading 
rapidly in Asia, and that Burma is playing a pivotal role in 
its spread. In Thailand, a country thought to have the epidemic 
under control, recent evidence shows a resurgence of the 
disease. Burma itself faces devastating epidemics of heroin 
addiction and HIV/AIDS infection, with the HIV virus spreading 
rapidly from intravenous drug users to the wider population. 
Last year the Burmese regime officially acknowledged that HIV/
AIDS is a serious problem in Burma; however, it has made no 
official effort to contain the disease. The government's tacit 
support for heroin production, the virtual collapse of the 
Burmese economy, the continuing wars between the regime and 
various ethnic groups, and the massive migration of Burmese 
seeking safety or work in neighboring countries have all 
contributed to the spread of the epidemic.
    The Committee believes that conditions in Burma represent a 
significant threat to efforts to contain the spread of the 
disease in neighboring countries like India, China, Thailand 
and even Cambodia. The Committee requests that, within 90 days 
after the enactment of this Act, the Agency for International 
Development, in consultation with the Department of State, 
provide a report to the Committee on the Burma HIV/AIDS 
epidemic and proposed steps the U.S. Government could take, 
working with other donors and without providing direct support 
to the Government of Burma, to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 
Burma.

                hiv/aids: children affected by hiv/aids

    AIDS is devastating the family structure in many countries, 
leaving millions of children orphaned and more vulnerable to 
HIV infection, poor health, little schooling, and even sexual 
exploitation. Approximately 600,000 newborns in the developing 
world contracted the virus just last year. Presently, there are 
5,000,000 orphans in Africa due to AIDS, and by the year 2010 
it is estimated that there will be 26,000,000 orphans in Africa 
as a result of AIDS. The Committee recognizes that community 
childcare through mobilization in high-incidence AIDS 
communities is one of the most important interventions 
available to provide care and support for the future orphans of 
Africa. Therefore, the committee urges AID to favorably 
consider a proposal by the private voluntary organization, Hope 
worldwide, to replicate and extend its world-famous Soweto 
Community Childcare program for children affected by AIDS to 
other sites in other cities, including Abidjan, Lagos, and 
Nairobi. The Committee strongly supports efforts to assist 
these and other children affected by HIV/AIDS, and urges that 
not less than $20,000,000 be provided to assist AIDS orphans 
and HIV positive children.

                    hiv/aids: program accountability

    The increased funding being made available for HIV/AIDS 
programs requires that AID and other federal agencies be 
especially focused on accountability for the funds expended. 
The Committee strongly recommends that the design and award of 
all bilateral and multilateral HIV/AIDS programs from accounts 
managed by AID be based on measurable, achievable goals. The 
Committee directs that AID transmit a written report to the 
Committee not later than March 1, 2002, describing in detail 
its plans for utilizing funds allocated for HIV/AIDS programs, 
including its proposals for programs in countries with emerging 
epidemics, and the benchmarks established to measure the 
success of the programs. On the same date, the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget is requested to submit a 
parallel report with regard to planned obligations of funds 
through a multilateral Health Trust Fund. Such benchmarks 
should include, as soon as feasible, the impact of programs on 
HIV infection rates and mortality. The Committee expects the 
Agency and OMB to formally consult with it on the contents of 
the reports not later than January 15, 2002.

                            hiv/aids summary

    The Committee anticipates that at least $40,000,000 for 
HIV/AIDS will be funded from the Economic Support Fund, 
regional accounts, and accounts administered by the Bureau for 
Humanitarian Response. Together with not less than $434,000,000 
from the Child Survival and Health Programs Fund, the bill 
total for HIV/AIDS should be at least $474,000,000. The 
Committee directs that AID include all HIV/AIDS-related 
activities, such as TB/HIV tuberculosis prevention and efforts 
to prevent and manage STDs, in its reports on achieving these 
targets.

                   other infectious diseases: malaria

    The Committee includes not less than the fiscal year 2001 
level for the prevention of malaria, a re-emerging global 
killer of children and a major impediment to economic 
development in many poor countries. The Bureau of Humanitarian 
Response is urged to provide not less than $2,500,000 for 
malaria from its grant program for private voluntary 
organizations, consistent with current practice.
    The Committee is aware of a credible proposal for scaling-
up malaria prevention and control activities, addressing the 
urgent needs of populations threatened by malaria who are 
living in areas of war and civil-disorder, and slowing the 
emergence and spread of drug-resistant malaria in regions of 
Africa, Asia, and South America. The Committee directs the 
Agency to reconsider this proposal forthwith, and to report to 
the Committee on the outcome of its deliberations not later 
than October 2, 2001.

                other infectious diseases: tuberculosis

    The Committee recognizes that tuberculosis (TB) is the 
major infectious killer of adults in the world, killing between 
two and three million each year. This disease could result in 
the deaths of up to 30,000,000 people in the next decade. TB 
kills more women than any other cause of mortality and is the 
major killer of persons with AIDS. Many of these will be 
parents, whose orphans will be a burden on already stressed 
societies. In addition, the Committee notes the threat to the 
United States from this disease due to international travel and 
immigration. An estimated 15 million Americans are currently 
infected with the TB bacteria. Therefore the Committee includes 
in the allocation for other infectious diseases not less than 
$70,100,000 from all accounts for programs for the prevention, 
treatment, control of, and research on tuberculosis. At least 
$5,000,000 should be made available for the independent states 
of the former Soviet Union.
    The Committee notes that the Agency for International 
Development is collaborating with the Gorgas Memorial Institute 
to promote regional TB control initiatives designed to address 
the global TB epidemic--training, operational improvement, and 
new approaches to disease control. The Committee strongly 
supports the continuation of this initiative. At least 
$2,000,000 is available for these activities during fiscal year 
2002.
    In its last three reports, the Committee requested AID to 
assist Texas and Mexico combat a particularly threatening 
outbreak of tuberculosis along their border. The Agency has 
been responsive, and the Committee urges continued cooperation 
with the Texas Department of Health and relevant offices of the 
federal and state governments of Mexico.

  other infectious diseases: antimicrobial resistance and surveillance

    The Committee supports the efforts of AID and the Centers 
for Disease Control to reduce the spread of antimicrobial 
resistance. The Committee is aware of the special problems of 
infectious diseases among patients hospitalized in Asia, Latin 
America, and Africa, and encourages AID to encourage the use of 
proven new technologies to combat antimicrobial resistance. The 
Committee has been made aware of the work in this area by the 
Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (antimicrobial 
resistance) and the International Foundation for the Reduction 
of Infectious Diseases, and suggests that AID cooperate with 
the Alliance and the Foundation. In addition, AID is encouraged 
to continue improving capacity for surveillance and response to 
infectious diseases at the national and local levels.

   infectious diseases: collaborative research by university medical 
                                schools

    The Committee is aware of and supports the renewed 
engagement of many United States university medical schools and 
medical research facilities in the global campaign against 
infectious diseases, especially those which affect children. As 
many contributed greatly to domestic public health progress in 
earlier decades, the Committee welcomes their interest in the 
new global campaign.
    The Agency for International Development and multilateral 
health and child survival agencies benefiting from this bill 
are urged to give every consideration to detailed proposals 
submitted by the relevant institutions cited in a separate 
section of this report following the discussion of the 
``Development Assistance'' account. The Committee notes with 
concern the seeming inability of the Agency to successfully 
collaborate, after many meetings with senior officials and 
numerous prior year report directives, with Tulane University, 
the University of Notre Dame, and Johns Hopkins University on 
their joint efforts to limit the spread of malaria.

                      reproductive health overview

    The Committee anticipates that at least $67,000,000 for 
reproductive health/voluntary family planning will be funded 
from the Economic Support Fund, regional accounts, and accounts 
administered by the Bureau for Humanitarian Response. Together 
with $358,000,000 from the Child Survival and Health Programs 
Fund, the bill total for reproductive health should be at least 
$425,000,000, as requested by the President. The Committee 
directs that AID include all reproductive health activities, 
including those funded from other accounts in this bill, in its 
reports on achieving these targets.

      reproductive health/voluntary family planning: restrictions

    The Committee has continued prior year language in the bill 
that requires that none of the funds appropriated in this bill, 
or any unobligated balances, be made available to any 
organization or program which, as determined by the President, 
supports and participates in the management of a program of 
coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization. The bill 
language also states that funds cannot be used to pay for the 
performance of abortions as a method of family planning or to 
motivate or coerce any person to practice abortion. Further, 
the language indicates that in order to reduce reliance on 
abortions in developing countries, population funds shall be 
available only to voluntary family planning projects which 
offer, either directly or through referral, information about 
access to a broad range of family planning methods and 
services. An additional provision in the bill requires 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.
    The Committee also has continued prior year language that 
states that nothing in the bill is to alter any existing 
statutory prohibitions against abortion which are included 
under section 104 of the Foreign Assistance Act. Further, the 
Committee has continued prior year language which states that 
project service providers or referral agents cannot implement 
or be subject to quotas or other numerical targets of total 
number of births, number of family planning acceptors, or 
acceptors of a particular method of family planning. This 
provision is identical to language in the fiscal year 2001 Act 
under the heading, ``Development Assistance''.

          grant to the united nations children's fund (unicef)

    The Committee supports efforts to reach the child survival 
goals set by the World Summit for Children. In order to 
implement these goals, the Committee is recommending that not 
less than $120,000,000 of the funds provided under the Child 
Survival and Health Programs Fund shall be provided as a 
contribution in grant form to the United Nations Children's 
Fund. This does not preclude the Agency for International 
Development from providing additional funding for specific 
UNICEF projects as may be appropriate.

                         Development Assistance





Fiscal year 2001 level................................    $1,305,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................     1,325,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................     1,098,000,000


    The Committee recommends $1,098,000,000 for the general 
account for development assistance for economic growth, 
agriculture, and trade. The amount recommended is $227,000,000 
below the budget request and $76,000,000 above the fiscal year 
2001 level, if the 2001 account structure is used. The account 
no longer includes population reproductive health, which is now 
incorporated within the Child Survival and Health Program Fund, 
consistent with the Administration's revised assistance 
categories.
    Funding in this account includes worldwide activities for 
free market economic development, agriculture, rural 
development, literacy and basic education for children and 
adults, environment, energy, science and technology and other 
programs related to longer-term development. Children's basic 
education programs were included last year in the Child 
Survival and Disease Programs Fund.
    The Committee recommends the continuation of bill language 
to prohibit the use of funds for any activities in 
contravention of the Convention on International Trade in 
Endangered Species (CITES) in order to address concerns that 
AID funded activities in Zimbabwe are contributing to trade in 
elephant ivory.
    The Committee recommends the transfer of up to $12,500,000, 
from the ``Development Assistance'' account, to support 
development credit activities instead of $25,000,000 as 
proposed by the President.

                            basic education

    The Committee recognizes that educating children in 
developing countries provides the foundation for sustained 
economic growth, poverty alleviation, and the creation of 
democratic institutions. There is also clear evidence that the 
collateral benefits of providing basic education for girls, 
including improved child and maternal health, lower fertility 
rates, reduced child labor, and increased political 
participation, make it one of the most effective expenditures 
of U.S. foreign assistance. The Committee strongly recommends a 
minimum level of $150,000,000 from this and other accounts for 
basic education, and encourages AID to place particular 
emphasis on programs that expand access and quality of 
education for girls, enhance community and parental 
participation in schools, improve teacher training, and build 
local management capacity. The Committee also recognizes that 
AID's capacity to create and execute innovative and effective 
basic education programs suffered disproportionately during the 
reduction in personnel over the last decade, and encourages AID 
to increase the number of direct hire education staff directly 
supporting and managing field programs.
    The Committee also recognizes the importance of education 
in the fight against HIV/AIDS in developing countries. The 
pandemic has severely affected not only school-age children, 
but also the teacher populations in sub-Saharan Africa. The 
Committee encourages AID to promote approaches to HIV/AIDS 
prevention which recognize the central role played by schools 
and teachers, including integrating information into curricula, 
instituting prevention programs in schools, and focusing on 
HIV/AIDS in teacher training institutes.

               global Issues: human rights and democracy

    The Committee expects AID to give adequate weight to the 
human rights and governance practices of recipient countries, 
including those reported in the Department of State's annual 
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.Although the 
Committee believes that need and U.S. foreign policy goals 
should be the primary criteria for determining whether or not a 
country should receive assistance, the Committee also believes 
that the assistance--whether through nongovernmental 
organizations or directly through official channels--will have 
a far greater chance of truly helping the citizens in those 
countries which respect the rule of law and the rights of their 
people. The Committee notes the disturbing recent trend by 
leaders of long-time foreign assistance recipients--Zimbabwe, 
for example--to undercut democratic processes and to curtail 
respect for human rights. Further, a number of traditional aid 
recipients are currently involved in military conflicts and 
have restricted the basic freedoms of their citizens. AID 
should continue to give significant weight to the record of 
human rights and democratic development of proposed recipient 
countries in the distribution of assistance provided under this 
Act.

                 global issues: literacy and education

    The Committee recognizes that expanding access to 
education, especially combating child and adult illiteracy, is 
critical to long-term development.The Committee supports the 
work of Alfalit International, an educational nongovernmental 
organization dedicated to promotion of literacy, elementary 
education, and community development in Africa and Latin 
America. Alfalit's proven record during the past three decades 
has helped significantly reduce child and adult illiteracy 
throughout Latin America and Africa. The Committee urges AID to 
provide $1,500,000 for Alfalit to jointly develop and implement 
programs to combat adult illiteracy in countries in which AID 
operates.

                         global issues: energy

    The Committee supports AID's proposed investment in public-
private sector partnerships involving hydropower energy 
investment in emerging markets and encourages the agency to 
vigorously support such activities. The Committee recognizes 
the important role that AID fulfills in creating overseas 
environments conducive to U.S. investments by encouraging 
policy reforms. Such reforms allow U.S. companies and financing 
organizations to invest in environmentally sound hydropower and 
the energy infrastructure needed for sustained growth. 
Involving responsible hydropower in the global energy mix may 
also help mitigate climate change.

       global issues: the role of girls and women in development

    The Committee recognizes the importance of improving the 
economic and social situation of women and girls through 
respect for legal rights and expanded access to educational 
opportunities, adequate health care, and credit. The Committee 
supports the work of AID's Office of Women in Development in 
these areas. Therefore, the Committee recommends $15,000,000 
for AID's women in development programs, including funds 
implemented by central offices and through overseas missions. 
Although AID is to be commended for devoting considerable 
attention to the needs of women and girls, additional attention 
is needed throughout the Agency from all funding sources, 
especially in areas such as Lebanon, Pakistan, and Central 
Asia.
    An important component of women in development programs is 
the identification of, and effective support for, women leaders 
in developing and post-conflict societies. These societies will 
reach their full potential only when all citizens are given 
equal opportunity to take leadership roles in political and 
civic institutions. The Committee commends the efforts of 
organizations such as Women's Campaign International, the 
International Women's Democracy Center, and the Vital Voices 
Global Partnership to ensure that women are given equal 
opportunity to participate in emerging democratic processes. 
The Committee recommends that AID expand its alliances with 
organizations that train women leaders as it moves toward a 
greater emphasis on conflict prevention and developmental 
relief activities.

                      global issues: biodiversity

    The Committee applauds the accomplishments of AID in 
integrating biodiversity and forest management in its economic 
and social development programs. The Committee urges AID to 
consider biodiversity a high priority and is concerned with the 
Administration's budget request for biodiversity programs for 
fiscal year 2002. The Committee urges AID to provide not less 
than $70,000,000 in fiscal year 2002 for its biodiversity 
programs.
    The Committee again recommends that AID provide $500,000 to 
support the Peregrine Fund's Neotropical Raptor Center in 
Panama to conserve birds of prey in the Panama Canal watershed 
area. The Peregrine Fund, established in 1970 as a non-profit 
organization, has partnered successfully with AID in the past. 
The Committee notes that the Center expects to receive 
significant private financing for this project as well.
    The Committee encourages AID to support the work of Earth 
University in San Jose, Costa Rica. For more than 10 years, 
Earth University has worked with more than two dozen U.S. 
universities on research projects designed to balance 
development and conservation in the areas of tropical forest 
preservation, reforestation, and biodiversity.

                       economic growth: overview

    The Committee considers free market economic growth, and 
the AID programs designed to lead directly to growth, the 
Agency's most important work in Africa, Latin America and Asia. 
Simply put, without sustained economic growth, AID's 
development programs for health, population, environment and 
other purposes, can have only marginal long-term benefits in 
poor countries.
    In the near-term, the Committee continues to support the 
use of AID resources for health improvement through the ``Child 
Survival and Health Programs'' account. But improved social 
conditions of children matter only if the future economies of 
these countries can provide employment for these healthier, 
better educated citizens. Therefore, the Committee encourages 
AID to increase funding for free market economic development in 
its development programs in each of these regions.
    The Committee continues to support AID technical assistance 
programs to encourage macro-level economic growth. These 
include programs to assist with privatization of state-run 
industry and legal and regulatory reform to modify trade and 
tax barriers which stifle local entrepreneurs and which deter 
U.S. investment. In addition, AID technical help for improving 
energy, transportation, telecommunication, and finance sectors 
is key to directly improving the economic climate of poor 
countries. Essential to this, of course, AID must continue to 
search out reform-minded government leaders without whom these 
programs cannot succeed.
    The Committee supports the efforts of AID to better 
coordinate with the US Trade Representative and other concerned 
agencies the significant amounts of aid already being committed 
to assist other countries to strengthen their trade-related 
laws and regulatory regimes. It is in the United States 
national interest to ensure that relevant economic growth funds 
are programmed to complement trade negotiating objectives.
    AID non-project assistance programs, or cash grants, to 
encourage sectoral reform or to ease transitions from state 
control to private ownership in poor countries have had only 
limited success. When governments are already committed to 
reform, non-project assistance can boost these efforts in the 
short-term. However, attempts to encourage non-reformist 
governments into changing bad policies by offering cash 
enticements will not work. The Committee discourages the use of 
non-project assistance where access to American technical know-
how is in higher demand than direct cash assistance.

                    economic growth: microenterprise

    Microenterprise, while unable to alter economic indicators 
on a national scale, can significantly improve personal and 
family incomes, thus providing money for school fees, health 
supplies, and more nutritious food, and stimulating economic 
growth at the community level. The Committee expects AID to 
reach the authorization level enacted by Public Law 106-309. 
Also, programs of importance to economic growth, such as girls' 
and women's education and training programs, can assist in 
opening the marketplace to females.

           economic growth: agriculture and rural development

    The Committee believes that agricultural development is 
central to creating free market economic growth in developing 
countries. By helping families grow more food that is more 
nutritious, hunger, malnutrition, and disease among women and 
children become less prevalent. By increasing incomes of rural 
families, the engine of economic development in these countries 
is being started. The Committee recognizes that AID has again 
included agricultural development as one of its key goals for 
its development programs.
    The Committee believes that sustainable agricultural 
development is central to economic growth in Africa and to the 
advancement of many of the development goals addressed in this 
bill. Two-thirds of African families live and work in rural 
areas and make a living farming or in rural enterprise. Helping 
poor rural families grow more food to eat means that hunger, 
malnutrition and disease become less prevalent (especially 
among women and children). Helping families grow more food to 
sell means that they can increase their incomes, participate in 
trade, and spur overall African economic growth. This 
ultimately makes them better trading partners for the U.S.
    The Committee particularly supports collaborative 
partnerships of U.S. agribusiness, non-government 
organizations, and universities with the African private 
sector. Projects to promote these partnerships leverage AID's 
development resources by increasing private sector investment 
of resources in developing countries, increasing economic 
growth and fostering stronger US/African trade and investment 
ties. The Committee recommends that AID emphasize private 
sector development in its programs such as support for producer 
associations, as well as trade, investment, finance and 
information systems. For their part, U.S. universities can make 
an important contribution in research, technology and human 
capital development geared to economic growth.
    To enhance the U.S. response to the World Food Summit 
commitment to help cut hunger in half by 2015, the Committee 
also recommends that AID emphasize the critical needs of the 
rural sector (where most of the poor and hungry reside) and 
increase investment to that end in its programs that address 
rural health (including AIDS and child survival), girls 
education, democratization, microenterprise development and the 
environment.

     economic growth: development of credit unions and cooperatives

    The Committee is aware of the importance of credit unions 
and cooperatives in strengthening democratic, grassroots 
approaches for economic development. The Committee continues to 
support the sharing of U.S. cooperative expertise in efforts to 
help lift low income people out of poverty through mobilization 
of equity, savings, and private initiative for community-based 
development. Credit Unions and cooperatives administer 70 
successful programs in 67 different countries, making use of 
$160,000,000 to leverage an additional $300,000,000 through the 
mobilization of local contributions.
    As a critical component of technical capacity building and 
partnerships with U.S. credit unions and cooperatives, the 
Committee encourages the Office of Private Voluntary 
Cooperation to maintain funding at $6,000,000 for cooperative 
development organizations in fiscal year 2002.
    In response to authorizing legislation enacted last year 
(Public Law 106-309), AID and the cooperative development 
community are exploring new opportunities for expanded 
partnerships. The Committee looks favorably on the following 
initiatives: programs to better utilize overseas remittances in 
Mexico; the utilization of cooperative approaches that mobilize 
communities that are adversely affected by the HIV/AIDS 
pandemic for self-help economic and social development, the use 
of cooperatives in utility privatization; and use of AID's 
development credit program by cooperatives.
    The Committee is aware of the World Council of Credit 
Unions' (WOCCU) international credit development activities, 
and notes that WOCCU has cooperated with AID in the past to 
provide financial services to the communities previously 
lacking them in 20 developing countries. WOCCU currently is 
planning to expand its activities into South Africa and Mexico. 
The Committee requests that AID consider promptly WOCCU's 
proposals for programs in South Africa and Mexico.
    The Committee recognizes that cooperative and credit union 
development takes time to yield successful results, and is 
concerned that AID interpretations of GPRA requirements 
specifying short-term results do not allow adequate time for 
implementation, thus, hampering the likelihood of successful 
programs over the longer term.

     economic growth: international intellectual property institute

    The Committee encourages AID to provide adequate funds to 
support the International Intellectual Property Institute 
(IIPI) in its efforts to help developing countries establish 
the minimum international standards necessary to protect and 
attract U.S. intellectual property industries. The past decade 
has seen tremendous economic growth in intellectual property 
industries such as software, music and pharmaceuticals. Yet, 
because of an inability to provide protection for such 
property, developing countries have been largely unable to 
participate in this economic expansion. AID support for IIPI 
training and technical assistance programs can promote sound 
intellectual property systems which protect American businesses 
and which foster free economic growth in developing countries.

               latin america and the caribbean: overview

    The Committee is pleased the Agency for International 
Development responded to report language from previous years 
urging that greater emphasis be provided for programs in Latin 
America and the Caribbean.
    The Committee has been made aware of the United States-
Honduran Presidential Program of Investments Alliance (USHPPIA) 
and encourages AID to support this initiative. The 
Administrator of AID is urged to work with the Metro Vision 
Economic Partnership for the implementation of this program. 
AID shall report to the Committee not later than March 1, 2002, 
regarding this program and is encouraged to include the USHPPIA 
in its fiscal year 2003 budget request.

                latin america and the caribbean: Mexico

    The Committee urges the Agency for International 
Development and the Department of State to allocate additional 
funds for economic growth, rural development, and trade 
activities in Mexico. An energetic response to expanded 
opportunities for economic cooperation with Mexico under its 
new Administration is likely to require more than the 
$6,185,000 requested for Development Assistance and $10,000,000 
for the Economic Support Fund in fiscal year 2002. The 
Committee fully supports an expansion of the bilateral program 
of economic cooperation between Mexico and the United States.

               latin america and the caribbean: guatemala

    The Committee renews its support for the resources 
necessary to help consolidate the Guatemala peace process by 
promoting national reconciliation, the cornerstone of United 
States policy toward Guatemala. As the Administration designs 
and awards contracts and grants for its fiscal year 2002 
combined program of $34,710,000 in development assistance, 
child survival and health, and economic support, the Committee 
requests that it take into account the continuing environment 
of criminal impunity and the increase in attacks against 
religious and human rights organizations. Renewed emphasis on 
improving the Guatemalan civilian police force and judiciary 
must be a top priority of U.S. assistance to strengthen law 
enforcement and modernization of the state. The Committee urges 
the Secretary of State to press the Government of Guatemala to 
carry out full investigations, leading to the arrest and trial 
of the perpetrators, of the recent murders of Sister Barbara 
Ann Ford and other U.S. citizens in Guatemala.

            Latin america and the caribbean: parks in peril

    The Committee notes its strong support for the existing AID 
Parks in Peril program, a partnership with the private sector 
to promote biodiversity conservation in imperiled ecosystems 
throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. The Committee 
believes that protection of rare ecosystems is important from 
an environmental standpoint and also serves the long-term 
economic interests of these nations and the interests of the 
United States. AID/Parks in Peril has worked at 37 sites in 15 
different countries, comprising more than 28 million acres. It 
has made significant progress at turning ``paper parks''--those 
created by governments, but not adequately maintained--into 
genuine protected areas. Since its inception, Parks in Peril 
has received $37,500,000 from central and mission AID funds, 
formally matched by more than $14,300,000 from The Nature 
Conservancy, foreign partners, and foreign governments, and has 
indirectly leveraged more than $268,000,000 from non-AID 
sources. The Committee welcomes the prospect of ``PiP 2000'', a 
renewed program that seeks to extend the influence of Parks in 
Peril more broadly.

          Latin America and the Caribbean: Corps of Engineers

    The Committee is pleased that the State Department and AID 
have begun to utilize the planning, engineering and design, 
environmental, and technical capabilities of the U.S. Army 
Corps of Engineers, particularly in Latin America where the 
Corps has existing field offices in Honduras, El Salvador, 
Panama, Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru. A partnership between the 
Corps and AID that takes advantage of these capabilities can 
significantly contribute to the strategic interests of the 
United States. The Committee intends that the State Department 
and AID use the Corps to a greater extent to support such 
activities as child survival (water and sanitation); 
development assistance; disaster assistance; and transition 
initiatives. Further, the Committee expects that the Department 
of State and AID will not establish additional engineering 
capabilities for activities that can be accomplished by the 
Corps. The Committee again requests that AID and the Department 
of State report separately within 60 days of enactment into law 
of this Act regarding plans to develop programs with the Corps 
during fiscal year 2002, including steps to develop a 
Memorandum of Agreement with the Corps.

                         Africa: horn of africa

    The Committee remains concerned about the fragile food 
security situation in the Horn of Africa. Famine conditions 
threaten more than 16 million people in Ethiopia, Sudan, 
Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Djibouti. Conflict has exacerbated 
these famine conditions by hindering the delivery of 
humanitarian assistance and by creating scores of internally 
displaced people and refugees.
    The Committee supports the efforts of The International 
Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRICP) to provide 
assistance to AID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance in 
predicting likely effects of weather patterns on Africa--
especially the Greater Horn of Africa region. To further this 
important work, the Committee recommends that AID support 
implementation of a modeling effort focused on climate impacts 
on water, including water supply, water-borne diseases, and 
agriculture, in collaboration with the Nairobi Drought 
Monitoring Center. The Committee believes these efforts can 
help achieve greater food security and stability in the region. 
The Committee encourages AID to consider a similar climate 
prediction monitoring program for southern Africa.

                  Africa: Assistance to Southern Sudan

    The Committee believes that the Administration can and 
should do more to support the democratic opposition in Sudan 
with the ultimate goal of bringing peace to the people of 
southern Sudan. The Committee supports the inclusion of Sudan 
on the list of terrorist nations and encourages the 
Administration to step up efforts to isolate the Khartoum 
regime. Further, the Committee is deeply concerned about the 
credible reports of trafficking of human beings and slavery in 
Sudan.
    The Committee continues its support for Operation Lifeline 
Sudan (OLS), a multilateral effort to provide desperately 
needed food and humanitarian relief to southern Sudan, funded 
in part by AID's Bureau of Humanitarian Response (BHR). 
However, without the consent of the government of Sudan, OLS is 
unable to provide desperately needed humanitarian aid to many 
opposition-controlled regions of Sudan. The Committee urges AID 
to significantly increase resources to nongovernmental 
organizations working in areas underserved by OLS and commends 
the Administration for doing so in recent years.
    The Committee also supports AID's Sudan Transitional 
Assistance for Rehabilitation (STAR) program, begun in 1998, to 
assist in the establishment of functioning local government and 
in the operation of small-scale municipal projects. The 
existing STAR program has supported training for leaders in the 
National Democratic Alliance in the role of local government 
administration and in human rights. The Committee recommends 
that sufficient funds be made available to promote 
democratization and peace and reconciliation initiatives in the 
opposition controlled territories of southern Sudan during 
fiscal year 2002. The purpose of these funds should be for 
improved local civilian administration and governance and to 
reduce conflict and ensure peace and unity in southern Sudan.

                    africa: sierra leone and liberia

    The Committee remains concerned by reports that several 
governments in the region, including Liberia, continue to allow 
for lethal military equipment to be provided to the rebels in 
Sierra Leone. This action has led to the further 
destabilization of the region, hindered humanitarian relief 
delivery, and has complicated international efforts to end the 
conflict in Sierra Leone. The Committee urges the 
Administration to make every effort to encourage governments, 
especially the Liberian Government, to end their military 
support for Sierra Leone rebels. The Committee has once again 
included bill language requiring that all assistance to Liberia 
be subject to the Committee's special notification 
requirements.
    The Committee has also included bill language prohibiting 
assistance to any government if the Secretary of State 
determines there is credible evidence that such government has 
provided military support or equipment, directly or through 
intermediaries, to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), or any 
other group intent on destabilizing the democratically elected 
government of the Republic of Sierra Leone or if there is 
credible evidence that such government has aided or abetted, 
within the previous six months, in the illicit distribution, 
transportation, or sale of diamonds mined in Sierra Leone.
    The Committee is aware of the dire situated faced by the 
closure of the JFK Memorial Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia and 
urges AID and the Department of State to promptly address the 
health crisis in Liberia and examine options to reopen the JFK 
Memorial Hospital. The Committee also endorses proposals to 
promote democracy and non-governmental organizations, such as 
the Archdiocese of Monrovia, in Liberia.

                            africa: zimbabwe

    The Committee notes that in Zimbabwe the rule of law is 
breaking down as the ruling party uses the state machinery to 
intimidate, torture, and often murder its citizens. Such acts 
are unacceptable in a country that considers itself to be a 
part of the international community of free nations. The 
Secretary of State is commended for his vocal intervention on 
behalf of a democratic Zimbabwe and is urged to follow through 
by mobilizing all available tools to encourage peaceful change 
by reinforcing the beleaguered democratic institutions in 
Zimbabwe. The Committee strongly supports assistance that seeks 
to strengthen parliament, an independent media, and non-
governmental organizations unaffiliated with the ruling party. 
The State Department is encouraged to support financially 
international observation and monitoring of the upcoming 
presidential elections in Zimbabwe.

                        africa: higher education

    The Committee considers children's basic education the 
priority for scarce AID education resources in Africa. However, 
the Committee recognizes the importance of higher education to 
economic growth and supports the work of AID through its 
Advanced Training for Leadership and Skills (ATLAS) program 
which brings African students to American colleges and 
universities. The Committee is pleased that AID will soon begin 
an open and competitive procurement for the continuation of its 
ATLAS program in Africa. The Committee is interested also in 
the development of indigenous African colleges and universities 
and requests AID to consider the merits of supporting the 
creation of a new women's university in Africa, designed to 
train African women in health sciences, education, agriculture, 
and business.

african initiatives: education for development and democracy Initiative 
(EDDI) and the african technology and workforce development initiative 
                                (AFTECH)

    The Committee recognizes the works of two exceptionally 
promising initiatives in Africa: the Education for Development 
and Democracy Initiative (EDDI) and the African Technology and 
Workforce Development Initiative (AFTECH). Through partnerships 
and entrepreneurial training, with a focus on girls and women, 
EDDI now operates in 31 countries and has American partners in 
29 states. Scholarships have been awarded to more than 6,000 
girls and another 6,000 are poised to receive scholarships. 
There are over 61 higher education partnerships, 20 technology 
partnerships and four school-to-school partnerships. EDDI 
continues to encourage its partners to seek support from the 
private sector. To continue its work, the Committee urges AID 
to consider proposals for as much as $40,000,000 between now 
and the end of fiscal year 2003 to support EDDI activities.
    A long-time AID implementer, the African-American Institute 
has joined with the Nairobi-based African Virtual University 
(AVU) to employ new information technologies to accelerate 
workforce development in Africa. Under the AFTECH Initiative, 
the AVU would deliver higher education and training content 
from cooperating American institutions to Africans in the 
places where they live and work. The AVU was initially funded 
by the World Bank and by other donors. To expand its work, it 
needs both the proven training experience of the African-
American Institute and support from AID missions and central 
bureaus. The Committee urges AID, and especially EDDI, to 
favorably consider proposals by AFTECH under the same 
conditions as are discussed later in this report for United 
States university support for developing countries.

                   farmer-to-farmer program in Africa

    The Committee notes with approval efforts made this year by 
AID in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture to 
expand the Farmer-to-Farmer Program in Africa. Programs that 
link American universities and producers with those of other 
nations are valuable tools in providing meaningful assistance 
to people at a critical period of economic development. The 
Committee encourages the Agency to expand such programs as it 
increases its focus on agriculture and rural development.

                             asia: overview

    The Committee notes that Asia (beyond the Middle East) is a 
region of paramount strategic and economic importance to the 
United States. While Asia represents the greatest potential for 
growth in U.S. exports and investment opportunities, systemic 
legal, social and economic weaknesses throughout the region 
continue to threaten these interests. The Committee is 
concerned that, while the economy of the region is largely 
recovering from the Asian financial crisis, South and East Asia 
still contain the largest concentration of poor people in the 
world, as well as the greatest land mass at risk of 
environmental degradation through poorly managed growth.
    The Committee reiterates that some assistance programs, 
such as AID's support for Vietnam's implementation of its 
Bilateral Trade Agreement with the United States, promote sound 
economic growth. Such technical assistance in support of 
updated commercial policies and legal structures also promotes 
United States trade with, and investment in, Asia. This 
approach to development assistance should continue to be a high 
priority, and the Committee again directs the Agency to make 
available, for a second year, $60,000,000 for this purpose. The 
Committee requests a brief report as soon as practicable on 
utilization of the $60,000,000 for economic growth in Asia that 
was provided in the fiscal year 2001 bill. The Agency is urged 
to provide sufficient operating expenses to effectively manage 
and oversee economic growth and other commercial and trade 
related programs in Asia, especially those in countries where 
AID does not have a field mission presence.

                  private and voluntary organizations

    The Committee continues to support private and voluntary 
organizations and cooperatives in the delivery of grassroots 
assistance. The Committee is aware that AID has begun to rely 
more heavily on contracting arrangements for large sector-wide 
programs, rather than grant programs that utilize the special 
expertise and local knowledge of PVOs and cooperatives.
    The Committee continues its strong support for adequate 
funding for AID's Office of Private and Voluntary Cooperation 
(PVC) in fiscal year 2002 at its current level. PVC manages 
competitive grants for child survival, microenterprise, 
economic growth, cooperative development and the Farmer-to-
Farmer program.

              american schools and hospitals abroad (asha)

    The Committee directs AID to provide not less than the 
amount provided in this Act for the American Schools and 
Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) program in fiscal year 2001. The 
Committee directs that none of these funds be reserved for 
programming in any future fiscal year. All funds are to be 
allocated and obligated in fiscal year 2002. The Committee 
further expects that support will be continued, as new 
resources are needed, for traditional recipients in countries 
such as Lebanon, Israel, and Egypt. The Committee expects AID 
to keep it currently informed regarding institutions which have 
received ASHA funding in previous years, but which continue to 
have significant unexpended balances. In addition, funds should 
be made available for other deserving institutions in all 
geographical regions as part of a competitive process.

                        cass scholarship program

    The Committee continues to support the work of the 
Cooperative Association of States for Scholarships (CASS) and 
supports funding for CASS at least at the level specified in 
its cooperative agreement with AID. The Committee encourages 
AID to work with CASS to meet the current demand from existing 
program countries, and to accommodate requests from several 
additional countries for services provided by the program.

                collaborative research support programs

    The Committee supports the continuation of the 
collaborative research support programs (CRSPs) and expects AID 
to increase funding for the CRSPs in fiscal year 2002. The 
Committee believes that CRSPs, such as the Peanut CRSP 
established in 1982, are clearly one of AID's best investments, 
funding for which should be increased rather than reduced. The 
Committee notes that agricultural research and development has 
led to greater economic development, increased income, and a 
more available food supply for the world's poor.

              international fertilizer development center

    The Committee strongly supports the fertilizer-related 
research and development being conducted by the International 
Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) and urges the 
Administrator of AID to make $2,300,000 available for the core 
grant to IFDC, a center established to support AID.

                 housing, shelter, and urban activities

    The Committee commends the progress made by the Eastern 
European Real Property Program in the Europe and Eurasia Bureau 
since 1992. As the program expands into other regions as the 
International Real Property Program (IRRP), the Committee 
recommends that other AID regional bureaus and missions 
seriously consider cooperation with the IRRP as housing, 
shelter, and urban activities are included in country 
strategies.

                           dairy development

    The Committee continues its strong support for dairy 
development and urges AID to fund new projects in fiscal 2002 
at the level provided in fiscal years 2000 and 2001. The 
program has helped the US dairy industry become more 
competitive through promoting American technology, equipment, 
inputs and industry-based technical assistance in developing 
and market transition countries. At the same time, the program 
has assisted producers, small dairies and cooperatives in 
developing and transitioning economies for increased household 
incomes and nutrition, particularly women, infants and 
children.
    The Committee directs AID to place greater emphasis on 
programs that link economic development programs with increased 
exports of US dairy products such as food ingredients, whey, 
non-fat dry milk and specialty products. Opportunities for 
these programs are particularly evident in Mexico, Central and 
South America. Examples include strengthening distribution 
networks; promoting indigenous products that use U.S. dairy 
ingredients; and building demand for dairy products though 
complementary USDA surplus dairy programs.

                   community-owned telecommunications

    The Committee believes that ensuring that developing 
countries, especially rural areas of these countries, have 
access to modern methods of communications is important to 
economic growth. The Committee notes that community-owned 
telecommunications systems, as have been successfully built in 
rural America, are effective in providing this access. The 
Committee therefore, recommends that AID provide funding for 
community-owned telecommunications projects, especially where 
viable in South and Central America through programs like the 
Power Line Communication Rural Electric initiative, and that it 
rely upon the direct experience of U.S. telephone cooperatives.

              agency response to requests for information

    The Agency for International Development and the Department 
of State are directed to respond within 15 days to requests by 
the Committee for additional information regarding programs, 
projects, and activities in the budget justification and 
reprogramming requests. Such information may include the 
identification of and funding provided to domestic and foreign 
cooperators, grantees, and contractors under programs, 
projects, and activities that are managed by regional and other 
central bureaus, missions, and embassies. The Committee expects 
AID to maintain a publicly accessible electronic database that 
reflects current information and financial data regarding its 
activities.

                 international executive service corps

    The Committee supports the excellent work of the 
International Executive Service Corps (IESC), which since 1964 
has undertaken more than 22,000 projects in 120 nations by 
utilizing volunteers to assist in business development, 
economic growth, and technology transfer. The Committee is 
concerned that AID has underutilized the IESC as a development 
partner in recent years and again directs AID to renew its 
commitment to the IESC to ensure expansion of its projects in 
sub-Saharan Africa and in Latin America and the Caribbean. AID 
is urged to restore an adequate core grant for the IESC in 
order to ensure its continuing viability.

                       torture treatment centers

    Supporting treatment centers as permanent national 
institutions is the best way of providing treatment services to 
torture victims and advocating for the elimination of torture 
globally. Accordingly, the Committee recommends $10,000,000 for 
AID to support foreign treatment centers for victims of torture 
as authorized by the Torture Victims Relief Act and the Torture 
Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 1999.
    The Committee commends AID for launching a new program to 
support foreign treatment centers through an allocation of 
$1,500,000 for fiscal years 2000-2002. The Committee notes, 
however, that many of the centers operate on or near the brink 
of bankruptcy. For those centers located in countries where the 
government has practiced torture, they also face political 
hostility from their governments. The Committee recommends that 
AID significantly increase its direct financial support for the 
centers' basic treatment services while maintaining an adequate 
level of support for training and technical assistance. The 
Committee directs AID to report on implementation of this 
recommendation not later than February 15, 2002.
    The Committee requests AID to report within 60 days of 
enactment of this Act on the extent of assistance provided to 
victims of mob violence and torture in Zimbabwe, especially 
African workers on illegally occupied commercial farms.

       united states university support for developing countries

    The Committee has received a number of requests to fund 
specific programs, projects, and activities at or through 
American institutions of higher education. The Committee 
strongly supports the funding of activities that support our 
international development assistance and foreign policy goals. 
The Committee has reviewed many concepts proposed for funding. 
The Committee strongly recommends that the Agency for 
International Development and/or the Department of State (as 
appropriate for the proposed project) consider favorably 
proposals submitted by the following organizations. In doing 
so, the Committee expects that competitive procedures will be 
followed with regard to each, to the maximum extent possible. 
Unless a proposal demonstrates a unique, innovative, or 
proprietary capability, or demonstrates special considerations 
that justify limited or non-competitive treatment, the 
Committee expects that competitive procedures will be applied 
with regard to the proposals on the list that follows. The 
Committee also expects AID to give priority to proposals that 
are well conceived, including those with realistic budgets and 
achievable objectives.
    Within 60 days after the submission of the initial report 
required by section 653(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act, the 
Agency for International Development shall submit a report to 
the Committee on the status of each activity identified below. 
Such report shall include: (1) the status of a funding proposal 
by the organization associated with each activity; (2) the 
degree to which the proposal is consistent with United States 
development assistance and foreign policy goals for the country 
or region in which the activity would take place; (3) the 
degree to which matching or other funds would be provided by 
the organization to complement the Federal contribution; (4) to 
the extent known at the time, any decision by AID or the 
Department of State on funding the activity, including the 
proposed funding level; and (5) any other relevant information 
deemed important by AID or the Department of State. The 
Committee also expects to receive a second report on the status 
of these proposals no later than May 1, 2002. In addition, the 
Committee requests that AID identify an office or organization 
within the agency, or within the Department of State if 
appropriate, to which inquiries can be directed on the status 
of these proposals.
    With the foregoing in mind, the Committee recommends the 
following proposals for AID's active consideration:
          a proposal by Wayne State University on behalf of its 
        International Partnerships in Public Health;
          a proposal by Mississippi State University on behalf 
        of its International Agribusiness Development Program;
          a proposal by Loma Linda University for its 
        healthcare programs in developing countries;
          proposals by Marquette University's project to train 
        a sustainable nursing workforce for HIV/AIDS Care and 
        Counseling in Kenya, and by its Les Aspin Center for 
        Government for continuing training in democracy, 
        leadership, and HIV/AIDS education in Kenya, Ghana, and 
        Nigeria (this matter was addressed in the fiscal year 
        2001 Committee report, and the Committee is very 
        concerned that the Agency for International Development 
        has not responded in a positive manner to this issue in 
        the past year);
          a proposal by a consortium of schools of tropical 
        public health at Tulane University, the University of 
        Notre Dame, and Johns Hopkins University to expand 
        programs to reduce the global reemergence of malaria;
          proposals by George Mason University on behalf of its 
        School of Nursing for enhancing ongoing activities in 
        Nicaragua and on behalf of its School of Law to 
        establish a Center for the Study of Terrorism and Human 
        Slavery;
          a proposal by a consortium of Washington State 
        University, Oregon State University, and South Dakota 
        State University with the International Maize and Wheat 
        Improvement Center to enhance a Food Security 
        initiative in Central Asia and the Caucasus region;
          a proposal by the University of Arizona to establish 
        a US-Mexico Border Research Institute and to 
        participate in AID's environment programs and the 
        Department of State narcotics control programs 
        conducted jointly with Mexico;
          a proposal by Florida A&M University to fund a 
        distance learning education program in Ghana;
          a proposal by Johns Hopkins University-School of 
        Advanced International Studies to expand its research 
        on and documentation of the scope of international 
        trafficking in women and children by its Protection 
        Project;
          a proposal by Florida International University to 
        establish an Andean Alternative Development Research 
        project;
          a proposal by St. Thomas University of Miami on 
        behalf of its Foundation for Democracy in Africa to 
        promote HIV/AIDS prevention activities in Africa;
          a proposal by the University of Miami-Institute for 
        Cuban and Cuban-American Studies to participate in the 
        Cuban Transition Project;
          a proposal by Arizona State University on behalf of 
        its US/Andean Partnership for Science Education;
          a proposal by LaRoche College-Pacem in Terris 
        Institute to expand its international private/public 
        scholarship programs;
          a proposal by New York University-Robert F. Wagner 
        School for Public Service to establish distance 
        learning and communications technology programs at an 
        International Center for Democratic Public Service;
          a proposal by the University of New Orleans in 
        partnership with the Louisiana Technology Council to 
        develop a technology training program in Latin America 
        and the Caribbean;
          proposals by Louisiana State University to develop 
        mariculture in Namibia and by its School of Law-
        Commercial Law Program of the Americas to support 
        intra-hemispheric trade;
          a proposal by City University of Bellevue, 
        Washington, for a new center that will facilitate its 
        existing distance learning program and expand distance 
        learning throughout eastern Europe;
          a proposal by San Diego State University to develop a 
        Middle East and Mediterranean Desert Development 
        Program to focus on expanding regional cooperation in 
        combating growing desertification in the Middle East 
        and southern Mediterranean region (this matter was 
        addressed in the fiscal year 2001 Committee report, and 
        the Committee is very concerned that the Agency for 
        International Development has not responded in a 
        positive manner to this issue in the past year);
          a proposal by Florida State University to fund a 
        distance learning program of instruction in basic legal 
        principles for students and professionals in central 
        Europe;
          a proposal by the National Center for Computational 
        Hydroscience and Engineering (NCCHE) at the University 
        of Mississippi for the purpose of transferring state of 
        the art technology to the Polish Academy of Sciences, 
        through programs to enhance waterways navigation 
        safety, flood prediction and prevention, water 
        resources engineering, environmental and ecological 
        impact assessment, and soil conservation;
          a proposal by the State University of New York for 
        its participation in a collaborative undertaking in the 
        field of advanced materials involving also the New York 
        Centers of Technology, Moscow State University, and 
        various private businesses;
          a proposal by the University of Northern Iowa to 
        expand the Orava Project in eastern Europe; this 
        project has successfully worked with educators in 
        Slovakia to incorporate democratic concepts and 
        practices into schools and teacher education programs; 
        and
          a proposal by Joslin Diabetes Center to partner with 
        Mansoura University in Egypt to address the growing 
        public health problem with diabetes in Egypt.

                   International Disaster Assistance





Fiscal year 2001 level................................      $165,000,000
    Emergency supplemental funding....................       135,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................       200,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................       200,000,000


    The Committee recommends $200,000,000 for the International 
Disaster Assistance account, the same amount as the request. 
The Committee recognizes that improved disaster prevention, 
mitigation, and preparedness techniques are central to reducing 
the need for disaster assistance in future years. The Committee 
recommends that at least $1,000,000 each be allocated for India 
and for El Salvador for disaster preparedness activities.

                       el salvador reconstruction

    The Committee has approved a 22 percent increase above the 
current level in order to accommodate an increase above the 
request for post-earthquake reconstruction projects in El 
Salvador, primarily through municipal governments and private 
voluntary agencies. The additional amount provided for El 
Salvador through this account is in addition to funds requested 
for El Salvador under this and other headings in the bill. The 
Committee notes that section 492(b) of the Foreign Assistance 
Act provides the President with the authority to obligate up to 
$50,000,000 from other development assistance accounts 
including the Economic Support Fund in order to provide 
disaster assistance, if necessary.

                              afghanistan

    The Committee is alarmed by credible reports about the 
severity and extent of the emerging humanitarian crisis in and 
around Afghanistan. The deepest and most extensive drought in 
30 years has devastated a population already in stress after 22 
years of an especially destructive war and misgovernment. A 
directive from the leader of Afghanistan's Taliban to cease 
opium poppy production has been obeyed, having the effect of 
reducing the income available to purchase what food is 
available for sale in local markets. Paradoxically no 
compensation or alternative development has been offered by the 
international community, as has been done in Bolivia and many 
other former drug-producing nations.
    To avoid possible starvation, Afghans are leaving their 
home villages, forming huge concentrations of refugee and 
internally displaced person (IDPs). A large percentage of IDPs 
and urban populations in the country now depend for survival on 
food donations from abroad, primarily from the United States, 
directly, or through American donations to the World Food 
Program.
    Of special concern to the Committee is the situation in 
Pakistan where as many as 200,000 new refugees have arrived 
since September, joining the 2 million Afghans who have been 
accepted by Pakistan since 1979. Most of the new refugees are 
living in appalling conditions, with poor sanitation and little 
water or suitable shelter. The Committee urges the State 
Department to place the refugee crisis in Pakistan at a higher 
level of priority, to urge other industrial nations to increase 
assistance, and make available additional funds from the 
international disaster and migration and refugee accounts, 
allowing international and private relief agencies to better 
cope with the crisis.
    The Committee urges the AID Office of Foreign Disaster 
Assistance to continue to negotiate an interim agreement with 
the County of Los Angeles Fire Department urban search and 
rescue team for overseas deployments. Once concluded, the 
interim agreement should remain in effect until such time as 
OFDA holds an open competition to meet its requirements for 
technical expertise in urban search and rescue. The results of 
the competition should reflect an appropriate geographic 
balance, with teams selected from the Pacific and Gulf-Atlantic 
coasts of the United States, as first directed in House Report 
106-254 in July, 1999.
    The Committee has for several years included reconstruction 
among the activities that could be funded through the disaster 
assistance account. The Committee requests two one-time reports 
from the Administrator of AID: within 30 days of enactment of 
the bill, a report on the planned allocation of International 
Disaster Assistance Funds, including an appropriate amount for 
reconstruction activities proposed to be undertaken for victims 
of natural disasters; and within 60 days of enactment, a report 
on the Agency's recommendations for future budgeting for 
developmental relief to alleviate ongoing complex humanitarian 
disasters, such as in Sudan, from the disaster assistance and 
other AID-managed accounts.

                         Transition Initiatives





Fiscal year 2001 level................................       $50,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................        50,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................        40,000,000


    The Committee recommends $40,000,000 for this account, 
compared to the budget request of $50,000,000. The Committee 
does not preclude AID's Office of Transition Activities from 
using resources transferred from other development accounts in 
this Act. Also, the Committee requests that AID report on a 
semi-annual basis the expenditure and specific use of funds by 
OTI.
    In its fiscal year 2000 report, the Committee noted that 
AID's Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) activities were 
consuming an ever-increasing part of the International Disaster 
Assistance account. A separate account was established for core 
OTI activities.
    As the AID Administrator moves to increase the Agency's 
focus on conflict prevention and development relief, the 
Committees expect to be fully consulted in advance on the role 
of OTI, the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, the Office 
of Private and Voluntary Cooperation, and the Office of Food 
for Peace.

                      Development Credit Authority


                     (including transfer of funds)

                            program account




Fiscal year 2001 level................................        $1,500,000
    (by transfer).....................................       (5,000,000)
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................  ................
    (by transfer).....................................      (25,000,000)
Committee recommendation..............................  ................
    (by transfer).....................................      (12,500,000)


                        administrative expenses




Fiscal year 2001 level................................        $4,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................         7,500,000
Committee recommendation..............................         7,500,000


    For fiscal year 2002, the budget request proposes merging 
AID's two existing credit programs into one consolidated 
Development Credit account. This single program would include a 
consolidated credit administrative budget. The Committee 
supports consolidation of the Micro and Small Enterprise 
Development (MSED) account as well as administrative expenses 
associated with management of the existing Development Credit 
Authority and recommends $7,500,000 for administrative 
expenses, the same as the requested level.

     Payment to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund





Fiscal year 2001 level................................       $44,489,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................        44,880,000
Committee recommendation..............................        44,880,000


    The Committee has provided the budget request for the 
mandatory payment to the Foreign Service Retirement and 
Disability Fund.

     Operating Expenses of the Agency for International Development





Fiscal year 2001 level................................      $520,000,000
    Emergency funding.................................        13,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................       549,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................       549,000,000


    The Committee has recommended funding for Agency for 
International Development operating expenses at a level of 
$549,000,000 which is the same as the Administration's request. 
The Committee has once again included a provision requiring AID 
to notify the Committee in advance of opening any new mission 
overseas and of any capital construction of missions or 
purchase or long-term lease of offices.

                  Use of Personal Service Contractors

    The Committee notes the continued use by AID of personal 
service contractors (PSCs). The Committee has traditionally 
supported this method of employing qualified individuals for 
short and medium term program implementation. However, the 
Committee notes the trend toward employing PSCs over a period 
of many years at the Agency, who carry out functions similar to 
career personnel of the Civil Service and the Foreign Service, 
but who lack comparable health, retirement, and other benefits. 
The Committee requests AID report in narrative form not later 
than March 1, 2002, on the total number of PSCs employed by the 
Agency, the average length of employment, the typical benefits 
provided to PSCs (compared to those provided to career Civil 
and Foreign Service employees), and the justification for the 
disparity in benefits.

                        fairness in contracting

    The Committee recognizes senior management now shares its 
concerns about AID's existing procedures regarding minimum 
awards under multiple award contracts. Current management 
practices on certain existing multiple award contracts do not 
yet allow small businesses to fairly compete for work.
    To reform this process AID management must address two key 
issues. First, organizations bidding for these contracts must 
be assured of receiving awards during the life of the contract 
valued at substantially more than the cost of preparing and 
submitting the original bid. While larger organizations and 
traditional AID contractors may be better able to absorb the 
upfront costs associated with the bidding process, small 
businesses--especially first-time bidders--find it difficult.
    Second, after being selected to participate in a multiple 
award contract, all businesses must be given the opportunity to 
compete for individual task orders. While discretion must be 
allowed for AID Cognizant Technical Officers (CTOs) to make 
award decisions, AID management has overall responsibility to 
ensure that each organization participating in a multiple award 
contract has received sufficient task orders so that it can be 
evaluated on its performance and considered for future work.
    Not later than October 5, 2002, AID is directed to report 
in writing to the Committee on its efforts to modify its 
existing procedures regarding multiple award contracts.

                    Voluntary Separation Incentives

    The Committee has included bill language providing for the 
payment of voluntary separation incentives to AID employees for 
the purpose of eliminating positions and functions at AID. This 
provision further amends the fiscal year 2000 authority. The 
Agency is directed to consult with the Committee prior to 
announcing to AID employees the positions eligible for the 
separation incentives. The Committee expects this authority to 
be utilized to reduce employment levels in Washington, D.C., 
not at AID's overseas missions.

                     Committee oversight challenges

    The Committee remains concerned about continued and 
significant weaknesses in AID's ability to provide reliable 
information to Congress regarding the exact use of funds under 
Agency control. Many of these deficiencies are not new as the 
Committee has highlighted these in past years. While progress 
has been made in certain areas, widespread deficiencies 
continue to exist in the majority of AID's financial accounting 
and management systems.
    The Committee will continue to work with senior AID 
officials to improve management and financial systems to ensure 
they meet the needs of both Congress and the Agency. The 
Committee expects AID management to implement the 
recommendations of the Inspector General in this regard and to 
be regularly consulted about Agency efforts to meet these 
requirements.
    The Committee directs AID to continue to report on a 
quarterly basis on the status of its computer systems, 
including the cumulative costs associated with design and 
implementation of its computer systems. Any costs for computer 
systems above those originally justified for fiscal year 2002 
shall be subject to prior review by the Committees on 
Appropriations. In addition, the Committee directs that the 
Agency's fiscal year 2003 budget justification will clearly 
identify the amounts requested for AID computer operations.

                         aid budget submission

    The Committee notes that the AID budget justification still 
falls short in providing the Congress with the minimum 
information it requires to carry out its legislative and 
oversight responsibilities, and has caused an undue reporting 
burden on the Agency. It is essential that the Committee have 
at its disposal a concise budget justification document that 
presents an overall presentation of the Agency's programs and 
activities.
    Beyond the unacceptable practice of aggregating most 
programs, projects, and activities under Agency objectives, the 
budget justification continues to largely exclude overview 
budget narratives and tables on areas such as infectious 
diseases, microcredit, biodiversity, population, economic 
growth, energy, democracy, or agriculture. The Committee 
strongly recommends that the AID budget justification be 
coordinated with a new financial management system to produce 
annual budget justifications that fully inform the Committee 
with regard to projects, initiatives, and other traditional 
areas of congressional and executive branch interest.

                         AID physical security

    The Committee remains committed to assisting AID in 
improving its physical security needs overseas and in 
Washington. The Committee directs the Administrator of AID to 
submit a written report detailing the agency's long-term local 
and overseas physical security requirements and the costs 
associated with these security needs, including the number of 
engineers and other technically qualified AID employees 
assigned to the security mission. The report also shall include 
information regarding the Agency's activities during the 
current fiscal year to work with other federal agencies, 
including the Department of State and the Office of Management 
and Budget, to address physical security issues.

Operating Expenses of the Agency for International Development, Office 
                        of the Inspector General





Fiscal year 2001 level................................       $27,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................        32,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................        30,000,000


    The Committee has recommended $30,000,000 for the Office of 
the Inspector General of AID for fiscal year 2002, $2,000,000 
below the budget request and $3,000,000 above the fiscal year 
2001 level. The Committee commends the Inspector General for 
seeking to consult with the Committee no less than four times 
per year on its activities with regard to the Government 
Performance and Results Act.

                  Other Bilateral Economic Assistance


                         Economic Support Fund





Fiscal year 2001 level................................    $2,295,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................     2,249,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................     2,199,000,000


    The Committee recommends a total of $2,199,000,000 for the 
Economic Support Fund, an amount that is $50,000,000 below the 
request and $96,000,000 below the amount enacted for fiscal 
year 2001.
    The Committee recommendation assumes a reduction of 
$160,000,000 in economic support for the Camp David countries. 
In addition, it reflects a reduction of $25,000,000 associated 
with the decision to retain a separate appropriations account 
for the International Fund for Ireland. The Administration's 
budget request included $19,600,000 for Ireland within the 
Economic Support Fund.
    As requested by the President, the Committee is 
recommending the continuation of language similar to that 
contained in the fiscal year 2001 appropriations act that 
authorizes assistance to the National Democratic Alliance of 
Sudan for certain specified activities.

                                 israel

    The Committee is continuing the initiative begun three 
years ago for a phased reduction in economic assistance for 
Israel that will result in the eventual elimination of 
``Economic Support Fund'' assistance. This proposal was 
originally made by the Government of Israel in response to new 
economic realities in the Middle East.
    The Committee is also convinced that the emerging security 
threats in the Middle East are significant and warrant 
increasing military assistance to Israel by $60,000,000 in 
fiscal year 2002. However, with respect to this recommended 
increase in military assistance, the Committee must be very 
clear that it cannot commit future Congresses to an additional 
appropriation of funds. Therefore, future increases in military 
assistance will require the annual review of the Congress and 
will necessarily be based upon an assessment of the security 
situation at the time.
    The Committee therefore recommends not less than 
$720,000,000 in economic support shall be provided for Israel, 
which is $120,000,000 less than the fiscal year 2001 level and 
the same as the President's budget request. The Committee also 
requires in bill language that these funds be provided to 
Israel as a cash grant and that funds be disbursed within 30 
days of enactment or by October 31, 2001, whichever is later.
    The Committee has retained an overall limit on Middle East 
spending (section 558) at a level of $5,141,150,000. The 
reduction of $100,000,000 from the fiscal year 2001 ceiling 
represents the net result of a decrease of $160,000,000 in 
economic support for the Camp David countries and an increase 
of $60,000,000 in military assistance for Israel. The Committee 
believes this will provide the Administration with increased 
flexibility in the allocation of funds in the foreign 
operations budget for priority activities in other areas of the 
world.

                                 egypt

    As part of the Committee's ongoing review of Middle East 
aid levels, and as a result of budget constraints affecting the 
international affairs budget, the Committee has engaged in 
extensive discussions with the Government of Egypt and the 
Administration regarding appropriate future aid levels for 
Egypt. As a key friend and ally in the region, Egypt's role in 
the Middle East is critical. It is the Committee's view 
therefore that changes in aid to Egypt must be implemented in 
close consultation with the Government of Egypt and in a manner 
which does not inadvertently undermine the guiding principles 
of the Camp David Accords.
    The Committee therefore includes not less than $655,000,000 
in economic support be provided for Egypt on a grant basis, 
which is $40,000,000 less than the fiscal year 2001 level and 
the same as the President's budget request. A cash transfer may 
be provided with the understanding that Egypt will continue to 
implement significant economic reforms.
    The Committee believes that encouraging stability and 
prosperity in Egypt is in the best national security interests 
of the United States. U.S. assistance to Egypt should serve the 
goal of regional stability, economic development and 
liberalization, and democratic reform. The Committee is 
therefore deeply concerned about the recent prosecution and 
conviction of twenty-eight people affiliated with the Ibn 
Khaldoun Center for Development Studies in Egypt, including the 
Center's director, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who holds dual U.S./
Egyptian citizenship. The Committee is also troubled by the 
fact that the case involving the Ibn Khaldoun Center was tried 
by a special security court, despite the fact that the Center 
was registered as a civil company. The Committee directs the 
State Department to report to the relevant Committees, no later 
than 120 days after the enactment of this Act, regarding the 
U.S. efforts to monitor developments in the case.
    The Committee also notes with concern that the Government 
of Egypt has declined to reinstate its ambassador to Israel. As 
in previous years, the Committee has included bill language 
encouraging the establishment of diplomatic relations between 
Israel and other countries in the region, and views the 
withdrawal of Egypt's ambassador as an unfortunate setback for 
efforts to establish lasting peace and stability in the region. 
The Committee urges the Secretary of State to make 
reinstatement of the ambassador to Israel a high priority in 
contacts with his Egyptian counterpart.

                           camp david accords

    The Committee emphasizes once again that the recommended 
levels of assistance for Israel and Egypt are based in great 
measure upon their continued participation in the Camp David 
Accords and the Egyptian-Israeli peace process.

                          non-military exports

    The Committee strongly urges the President to ensure, in 
providing cash transfer assistance to Egypt and Israel, that 
the level of such assistance does not cause an adverse impact 
on the total level of non-military exports from the United 
States to each such country.

                       economic boycott of israel

    The Committee has once again included language in the bill 
addressing the Arab League boycott of Israel under section 535 
of this Act. This language includes modifications made last 
year to urge that Arab League members normalize relations with 
Israel.

                                 jordan

    The Committee expresses its continued strong support for 
and appreciation of Jordan's constructive and critical role in 
the region and encourages the Administration, in close 
consultation and cooperation with the Congress, to continue its 
efforts to assist Jordan in both the economic and security 
areas. The Committee therefore recommends $150,000,000 in 
economic assistance for Jordan, the same as the President's 
budget request.
    The Committee also encourages Jordan to continue its 
ongoing economic reform program, which the Committee strongly 
supports.

                      middle east desertification

    The Committee recommends that the Agency for International 
Development and the Department of State, through regional and 
bilateral programs, increase its emphasis on the issues of 
desertification and water shortages in the Middle East and 
Mediterranean region. The Committee urges the Department to 
consider an increase in the funding allocated to the Middle 
East Regional Cooperation (MERC) program specifically to 
address these issues. The success of peace negotiations in the 
Middle East will depend upon the ability of all parties to 
agree on an equitable allocation of the region's scarce water 
resources. Much of these resources are in the form of 
groundwater aquifers that are shared by at least two countries. 
In that regard, the Committee is aware of the proposal of the 
Blaustein Institute for Desert Research in Israel to 
investigate the flow and transport of pollutants in groundwater 
in the region, and recommends that the Department of State and 
AID actively consider up to $1,000,000 for this organization.
    The Committee also recognizes the efforts of the Galilee 
Society in creating the Appropriate Technology Consortium with 
support from the MERC program, and notes with interest the 
Society's recent proposal to launch a cooperative project to 
find safe and suitable uses for organic waste emanating from 
olive oil presses.
    The Committee also strongly supports the efforts of the 
International Arid Lands Consortium and its partner, the Center 
for Middle East Peace, in addressing the critical issues of 
water and energy in the Middle East and directs AID to provide 
up to $2,500,000 to the International Arid Lands Consortium for 
this work. These funds should be allocated from bilateral, 
centrally managed, or regional programs either in this account 
or in other accounts funded in this act.

                          conflict resolution

    The Committee recognizes the importance of youth training 
in conflict resolution as a tool for creating a climate of 
peace in regions of conflict. Organizations such as Interns for 
Peace can play an important role in this regard, and the 
Committee urges support for its programs. The Committee also 
commends Seeds of Peace for its commitment to helping future 
leaders of the Middle East and other regions (such as Cyprus, 
the Balkans, and South Asia) to overcome prejudice, fear, and 
other obstacles to peace, and urges AID and the Department of 
State to provide $1,000,000 in fiscal year 2002 to support the 
important work of this organization.
    The Committee recognizes that through the Economic Support 
Fund the United States has funds available that focus on 
environmental security alerts, threat assessments, and 
preventive solutions. In that regard, the Administration has an 
excellent opportunity to access the information and expertise 
of the Foundation for Security and Sustainability and its 
academic and industry partners. The Foundation's data and 
assessments, and collaboration with interdisciplinary experts 
and the academic community, reduce the burden on federal 
agencies and provide invaluable insight to United States policy 
makers in evaluating the security implications of emerging 
environmental issues and developing strategies for engaging on 
these issues in time to make a difference. The Committee 
supports the efforts of the Foundation for Security and 
Sustainability and strongly encourages the Agency for 
International Development and the Department of State to 
provide funds to support its mission.
    In addition, the International Crisis Group (ICG) provides 
high-quality analysis and policy recommendations to prevent or 
reduce the level of deadly violence resulting from complex 
crises. ICG's analysts worldwide have been well positioned to 
identify potential problems, produce objective assessments, and 
support policy responses. The Committee urges the Department of 
State and the Agency for International Development to provide 
funding for the ICG to continue its research in areas of U.S. 
foreign policy interest, such as Colombia, Sierra Leone, the 
Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, and the Balkans.
    The Committee recognizes that ethnic and sectarian tensions 
underlie many of the world's most intractable conflicts. NGOs 
in conflict regions can play an important role in resolving 
tensions and building peaceful societies. The Committee 
recognizes the important work of the School for International 
Training's Conflict Transformation Across Cultures Program 
(CONTACT), an international professional development program 
for NGO personnel. The CONTACT program has trained NGO 
professionals from the former Yugoslavia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, 
Indonesia, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, the Middle East, and 
other regions in the core skills and practical tools for 
responding to conflict in their communities, and has developed 
a global network of dedicated professionals in the field of 
conflict resolution. The Committee recommends that USAID make 
available up to $1,000,000 for the CONTACT program.

                            lebanon funding

    The Committee believes support for the people of Lebanon 
continues to be in the United States national interest. The 
Committee supports at least $35,000,000 for Lebanon for fiscal 
year 2002. In that regard, the Committee has retained bill 
language similar to that contained in the fiscal year 2001 
appropriations act that directs that not less than $35,000,000 
should be made available for Lebanon. Working through such 
organizations as the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), 
the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, the Cooperative 
Housing Foundation, Mercy Corps, Save the Children Federation, 
State University of New York, and the World Rehabilitation 
Fund, the Agency for International Development is providing the 
basis for a democratic social and economic infrastructure that 
does not rely on other organizations operating in that country. 
In particular, the Committee commends the Rural Community 
Development Cluster (RCDC) program, which is helping to 
revitalize and expand economic opportunities in some of the 
most destitute and poverty-stricken areas of Lebanon.
    The Committee is also aware of the key role the Lebanese 
American University, American University of Beirut, and 
International College play training leaders in the region and 
expect that not less than the fiscal year 2001 allocation will 
be provided for these important institutions.
    The Committee welcomes the withdrawal of Syrian troops from 
the region surrounding Beirut, but recognizes that Lebanon can 
never achieve full independence until all foreign security and 
military forces are withdrawn, and control is reasserted by the 
national government throughout all of Lebanon. The Committee 
calls upon Lebanon and Syria to adopt a timetable for the 
complete withdrawal of all Syrian forces from Lebanon.
    The Committee also urges the government of Lebanon to 
assist international humanitarian organizations in determining 
the whereabouts and condition of three Israeli soldiers that 
were seized near the southern border last year. The Committee 
encourages the Secretary of State to make this issue a high 
priority of U.S. diplomatic activity in the region.

                                ireland

    The Committee strongly supports continued funding to 
implement the Irish Peace Process Cultural and Training Program 
Act of 1998 and has provided the budget request of $5,000,000 
for this purpose. This Congressional initiative brings 
individuals from Northern Ireland and designated disadvantaged 
areas to the United States for job training and related 
activities.

                               indonesia

    The Committee notes the difficult path encountered by new 
democratic institutions at the central and local levels 
throughout Indonesia. The Agency for International Development 
is encouraged to provide adequate humanitarian assistance to 
internally displaced persons, especially in East Indonesia. The 
Committee expects the Departments of State and the Treasury and 
AID to consult with it in advance of any significant change in 
any United States or international financial institution 
program of development, financial, or humanitarian assistance 
in Indonesia. It also directs the Export-Import Bank and the 
Overseas Private Investment Corporation to promptly notify the 
Committee in the event that any claim is anticipated or made on 
behalf of a loan or guarantee involving Indonesia.

                               east timor

    The Committee recommends that $25,000,000 from the Economic 
Support Fund be made available as requested to support income 
producing projects and other reconstruction activities in East 
Timor.

                                mongolia

    The Committee notes the difficult path encountered by new 
democratic institutions in Mongolia. The Committee has provided 
the full request of $12,000,000 for governance and other 
development assistance requested by the Department of State. In 
addition, the Agency for International Development is 
encouraged to provide adequate humanitarian and rehabilitation 
assistance to Mongolia, especially rural areas severely 
affected by a recent series of natural disasters.

                                 china

    The Committee continues to support democracy programs in 
China, and supports the President's request for rule of law 
activities. In that regard, the Committee supports the 
provision of $1,000,000 for democracy activities for China 
through grants administered by the National Endowment for 
Democracy (NED). Such funding should be provided in addition to 
the $1,000,000 specified for such activities in the fiscal 
years 2000 and 2001 appropriations acts for the Economic 
Support Fund. The subgrants that would be awarded under this 
grant would be similar in nature to the existing portfolio of 
NED-supported programs based outside China. The subgrants could 
include human rights documentation and advocacy in the 
international arena; dissemination of Chinese-language human 
rights and democracy education materials among audiences inside 
and outside China; independent media support; independent 
research on China's struggle for democracy; publication of 
periodicals which provide an open forum for discussion and 
commentary on social, cultural, economic and political issues; 
and resource centers to provide access to important information 
necessary for both Chinese and international observers and 
policymakers to understand the situation in China.

                                 tibet

    The Committee recommends that $250,000 be made available 
through a nongovernmental organization, such as the National 
Endowment for Democracy, for the purpose of providing training 
and education of Tibetans in democracy activities, and 
monitoring the human rights situation in Tibet. In addition, 
language has been included in section 526 to allow for a 
continuation in funding for activities which preserve cultural 
traditions and promote sustainable development and 
environmental conservation in Tibetan communities. The 
Committee is aware of the valuable assistance the Bridge Fund 
has provided to promote Tibetan-owned and operated businesses 
and educational, cultural, and natural resource conservation 
projects in Tibet, and urges that funds be provided for these 
activities.

                               sri lanka

    The Committee encourages the Agency for International 
Development to maintain an office and presence in Sri Lanka. In 
addition, it is encouraged to provide additional resources for 
programs promoting rule of law, anti-corruption activities, and 
good governance. Recent progress toward peace talks and a 
settlement of the long civil war in Sri Lanka is encouraging, 
and the United States should continue to lend its support 
toward such efforts.

                                 cyprus

    The Committee strongly supports the budget request of 
$15,000,000 for educational and other bicommunal projects in 
Cyprus, and has included language similar to that included in 
the fiscal year 2001 act that provides that not less than 
$15,000,000 should be made available for these purposes. These 
funds provide a basis for mutual cooperation and preparation 
for the two communities of Cyprus to live together harmoniously 
by increasing inter-communal contacts.

                    latin america and the caribbean

    The Committee strongly supports the increases in the 
President's request for Latin America. It remains the 
Committee's strong belief that given the importance of the 
region and the long history of United States support, it is 
essential that aid levels be increased. In that regard, the 
Committee fully supports the budget request of at least 
$5,000,000 for the Cuba democracy program and its goal of 
promoting a peaceful transition to democracy in that country. 
When allocating these funds the Committee expects AID to 
consider proposals at or through institutions of higher 
education in the United States and expects that competitive 
procedures will be followed with regard to such proposals.
    The Committee continues to be concerned about the 
resolution of the cases involving the terrorist bombings of the 
Israeli Embassy and the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos 
Aires, Argentina. The Committee urges the Secretary of State to 
continue to work with the Government of Argentina to ensure 
that progress is made in these cases, and to offer technical 
law enforcement assistance where appropriate to bring to 
justice the perpetrators of these terrorist acts.
    The Committee is concerned about potential loss of human 
life and economic infrastructure as a result of future 
earthquakes in Latin America. In significant respects, such 
damage may be avoided if proper planning and construction 
occurs. There is a need in El Salvador, Ecuador, and other 
Latin American countries for updated construction codes. If 
proper codes are followed, buildings will be safer, and 
therefore, the need for United States disaster assistance in 
the wake of disasters will be less. The Committee urges the 
Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance at the Agency for 
International Development to recognize and evaluate 
opportunities to translate U.S. building codes from English to 
Spanish and for training in Ecuador and El Salvador.

               dollarization in central and south america

    The Committee is concerned that the growth in 
``dollarization'' throughout the world, especially in Central 
and South America, will result in an increase in the overseas 
based production and distribution of counterfeit U.S. currency. 
Dollarization in countries that lack law enforcement expertise 
or meaningful criminal penalties will provide counterfeiters a 
fertile environment to use that economy as a place to launder 
counterfeit U.S. dollars.
    In order to prevent the proliferation of counterfeiting as 
a result of increased dollarization, the Committee directs the 
Secretary of State, with the Secretary of Treasury, to jointly 
develop a strategy to mitigate counterfeiting of U.S. dollars 
in dollarized regions and report its findings to the Committees 
on Appropriations no later than September 30, 2002.

                    human rights and democracy fund

    As in fiscal year 2001, the Committee expects that, of the 
funds allocated to the Human Rights and Democracy Fund, 
$1,000,000 should be provided to support the Reagan/Fascell 
Democracy Fellows Program of the National Endowment for 
Democracy to enable activists, scholars, journalists, and 
practitioners from around the world to help make contributions 
to the strengthening of democracy in their respective 
countries. This program was authorized in section 104(a)(2)(B) 
of H.R. 3427 as enacted into law as part of Public Law 106-113.
    The Committee continues to support assistance to South 
Korean nongovernmental organizations involved in activities to 
promote democratization efforts in North Korea, and is 
disappointed that funds provided in fiscal year 2001 have not 
been obligated. The Committee strongly urges that an additional 
$250,000 be made available from funds appropriated in fiscal 
year 2002. Such funds should be programmed through the National 
Endowment for Democracy.

                              tuna treaty

    The Treaty on Fisheries between the United States and the 
governments of certain Pacific Island states, popularly known 
as the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Treaty, requires that 
$14,000,000 in economic assistance be provided annually to the 
South Pacific states. Therefore, the Committee recommends that 
the treaty obligation be met through the payment of the full 
$14,000,000 in fiscal year 2002, as requested by the President.

                         availability of funds

    The Committee has continued language that funds in this 
account are to remain available for obligation for two years.

                     International Fund for Ireland





Fiscal year 2001 level................................       $25,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................      (19,600,000)
Committee recommendation..............................        25,000,000


    The Committee recommends $25,000,000 for the International 
Fund for Ireland in support of the Anglo-Irish Accord. Funding 
for this activity is requested through the Economic Support 
Fund, but the Committee recommendation would continue a 
separate account for assistance to Ireland. The amount 
represents an increase of $5,400,000 over the President's 
budget request.
    The International Fund for Ireland plays an important role 
in promoting peace and stability in Northern Ireland. The 
Committee is aware of a proposal by the University of Ulster 
Springvale campus to work with the University of Notre Dame to 
assess the impact of the new campus on the West Belfast 
community. The Committee believes the Fund is the appropriate 
and authorized vehicle for providing assistance to Ireland, and 
therefore requests the Fund to favorably review this request, 
and to provide funding as appropriate.
    The Committee strongly urges the International Fund for 
Ireland to take every step possible to ensure that all 
recipients of Fund support are promoting equality of 
opportunity and non-discrimination in employment. The Committee 
further urges the Fund to focus on those projects that hold the 
greatest potential for job creation and equal opportunity for 
the Irish people, regardless of class, creed, gender, or 
ethnicity.

          Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States





Fiscal year 2001 level................................      $600,000,000
Emergency funding.....................................        75,825,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................       605,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................       600,000,000


    The Committee recommends $600,000,000 for Assistance for 
Eastern Europe and the Baltic States, an amount that is the 
same as the amount provided for fiscal year 2001 (excluding 
emergency funds) but $5,000,000 below the budget request. If 
emergency supplemental funds are included, the recommendation 
is $75,825,000 below the level enacted for fiscal year 2001.
    The Committee intends that funding for democracy programs 
though the National Endowment for Democracy continue at least 
at the fiscal year 2001 level, and be provided as a transfer of 
funds pursuant to section 632(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act.

                       burden sharing for kosovo

    The Committee remains concerned about the level and pace of 
European contributions to the reconstruction and rebuilding of 
Kosovo. However, the Committee is aware it is unlikely a formal 
donor's conference will be held for Kovoso for fiscal year 
2002. In addition, the funding allocation for assistance for 
Kosovo would decline from $150,000,000 in fiscal year 2001 to 
$120,000,000 in fiscal year 2002. Therefore language requiring 
that the United States not provide more than 15 percent of the 
resources pledged for Kosovo has been modified to set this 
limitation as a goal rather than a funding ceiling. In 
addition, bill language is continued from the fiscal year 2001 
appropriations act that would prohibit funding for large scale 
physical infrastructure reconstruction.

                         bosnia and herzegovina

    The Committee has recommended the same bill language as in 
the fiscal year 2001 Act that requires the written approval of 
the Administrator of AID for loans and projects under the 
Economic Reconstruction Program; authorizes the use of local 
currency funds generated by the Bosnia assistance program for 
programs throughout the region; and authorizes the President to 
withhold funds for economic revitalization for Bosnia if he 
determines that Bosnia is not in compliance with the Dayton 
Accord regarding the presence of foreign forces and has not 
terminated intelligence cooperation with Iranian officials. All 
funds are subject to the provisions of section 529 of this Act.

                brcko district of bosnia and herzegovina

    The Committee believes that the terms and conditions 
specified in the Final Award of the Arbitral Tribunal 
overseeing the Brcko boundary dispute constitutes a package of 
innovative reforms that hold significant promise for rebuilding 
vital civil institutions. In particular, the Committee believes 
that the work of the Law Revision Commission to modify existing 
laws to produce a uniform and fair system of laws throughout 
the Brcko District should be seen as a model for making similar 
reforms in the broader region. The Committee believes the 
Secretary should use his offices to highlight the institution-
building mechanisms developed by the Brcko Tribunal and urge 
that this be used as a model for making needed legal, judicial 
and penal, law enforcement, customs service, taxation, and 
financial management reforms in the Federation of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska.

                               montenegro

    The Committee strongly supports assistance for the Republic 
of Montenegro, and urges the Administration to make every 
effort to assist the Government of the Republic. The Committee 
is disappointed that the Administration did not request a 
separate line item for Montenegro. Therefore the Committee 
directs that $60,000,000 be made available for Montenegro, and 
that this sum be identified in the report required by section 
653(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act as a separate line item 
with a separate allocation. The Committee notes the strong 
support given by the Republic to the foreign policy of the 
United States during the latter years of the Milosovic regime 
in Serbia.

                           The baltic states

    The Committee has not included bill language that 
recommends that $5,000,000 shall be provided for assistance for 
the Baltic States based on assurances from the Department of 
State that such an allocation will be made for fiscal year 
2002. The Committee strongly supports continued assistance to 
the Baltic States at least at the $5,000,000 level. Although 
these countries no longer have AID missions, they are still 
emerging from decades of dominance by the Soviet Union and 
continue to need United States technical assistance in order to 
emerge into the community of Western nations.
    The Committee intends that these resources be used in the 
Baltics for the same purposes as were the funds that were 
provided in fiscal year 2001, including regional environment 
programs, health programs, anticrime and anticorruption 
programs, and rule of law programs.
    The Committee requests that the Department of State and the 
Agency for International Development consult with the 
Committees on Appropriations by February 1, 2002, on plans to 
continue these programs in the Baltics. The Committee does not 
believe the maintenance of such programs will require AID to 
open missions in any of these countries. Such programs can and 
should be managed on a regional basis.

                          treatment of orphans

    The Committee continues to be very concerned by the 
condition of orphaned children in the Federation of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina. While Bosnian families have been reluctant to 
adopt many of these children, American families have shown an 
interest in adopting Bosnian children. Unfortunately, 
legislative barriers within the Federation have prevented 
foreign adoptions, and the Committee is very disturbed that 
little action has been taken to modify these provisions. The 
Committee strongly encourages the Government of the Federation 
of Bosnia and Herzegovina to enact legislation that will 
expedite the adoption of Bosnia children by foreign families, 
and directs the Secretary of State to report not later than 
December 1, 2002, on the steps that have been taken both by 
Bosnia and by the Department to encourage passage of such 
legislation.

                 legal initiatives and the rule of law

    The Committee encourages the Agency for International 
Development to continue to provide financial support for the 
Central and Eastern European Law Initiative (CEELI), a project 
of the American Bar Association. CEELI has received grants to 
help Central and East Europe and the NIS create new legal 
frameworks based on the rule of law rather than through party 
doctrine or caprice.
    Through a variety of program components, CEELI is making 
available legal expertise to assist countries that are in the 
process of modifying or restructuring their laws or legal 
systems. CEELI emphasizes long-term engagement country-by-
country and supports projects that facilitate extensive 
consultations with policy-makers, legal scholars, judges, and 
attorneys. CEELI has focused work in several critical priority 
areas: constitutional reform; judicial restructuring; bar 
reform; commercial law; criminal law and procedure; and legal 
education reform, and has helped develop and/or 
institutionalize self-sustaining indigenous nongovernmental 
organizations (NGOs). The Committee encourages support for this 
type of private sector involvement.

  training and exchanges in the former soviet union and central europe

    The Committee continues to support training, exchanges, and 
partnerships between the United States and the nations of 
Eurasia, Central Europe, and the southern tier of Europe. These 
programs are in the interest of the United States and important 
to sustaining democracies. The Committee recommends the 
Administration provide funding for the Russian, Eurasian, and 
East European Research and Training Program (Title VIII) at the 
fiscal year 2000 level.
    The Committee recommends the East Central European 
Scholarship Program (ECESP) be continued at least at the same 
level as fiscal year 2001 to allow the program to continue to 
address the needs of the countries in the southern tier of 
Central Europe.

    Assistance for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union





Fiscal year 2001 level................................      $810,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................       808,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................       768,000,000


    The Committee recommends $768,000,000 for Ukraine, the 
Southern Caucasus states, Russia, and the Central Asian 
republics of the former Soviet Union. This is $40,000,000 less 
than the request and $42,000,000 less than the enacted fiscal 
year 2001 level.
    The Committee has included in subsection (a) prior year 
language providing the funds under this heading 
``notwithstanding any other provision of law'' and applying the 
provisions of section 498B(j) of the Foreign Assistance Act. A 
general provision (section 517) also includes long-standing 
language on human rights, and non-use of funds for enhancing 
military capacities, and providing all funds subject to 
separate notification.

                       child survival and health

    The Committee continues to be concerned about the low 
priority assigned to declining maternal and environmental 
health conditions and the increasing incidence of TB/HIV/AIDS 
in Russia, Ukraine, and the Central Asian Republics. The 
positive results achieved with the small amounts already spent 
for such programs in recent years have been dramatic. The 
health and child survival sector can effectively absorb 
increased resources, with an immediate and personal impact on 
the demographically-stressed citizens of these nations. In 
order to demonstrate its support for these high priority 
activities that directly affect the citizens of these 
countries, the Committee has included bill language allocating 
not less than $45,000,000 for them.
    The Committee is aware of and commends the Birth Defects 
Monitoring Program recently instituted in Ukraine to detect the 
incidence of birth defects related to the Chernobyl accident. 
The Committee recommends that not less than $1,000,000 be 
provided for this purpose and a proposed program to fortify 
flour with folic acid to reduce the occurrence of spina bifida 
in Ukraine in fiscal year 2002. The Committee also commends AID 
for its efforts to prevent the trafficking of young women from 
the region and expects successful programs to be expanded. The 
Primary Health Care Initiative of the World Council of 
Hellenes, has come to the attention of the Committee. Funded by 
the Coordinator's Office of Humanitarian Assistance in fiscal 
years 2000 and 2001, this project merits consideration, based 
on its success, for additional funding in 2002.
    ``The Committee recognizes the work of the Eurasian Medical 
Education Program of the American College of Physicians in 
continuing medical education of Russian physicians in the 
treatment of tuberculosis, cardiovascular disease, and 
diabetes. This exchange program has given volunteer American 
physicians the opportunity to share experiences and knowledge 
with their Russian colleagues, greatly benefiting the people of 
the Russian Federation. The Committee urges continued AID 
support for this program.

          International and Community Partnerships in Eurasia

    The Committee commends the American International Health 
Alliance (AIHA) and its partners in the new community-based 
primary health care partnership program in the former Soviet 
Union and Eastern Europe. This innovative program is actively 
improving local health systems in the former Soviet bloc that 
have deteriorated over the past decade, especially as they 
affect services to women and children.
    Examples of successful partnerships between the Volgograd 
State Medical Academy in Russia and the University of Arkansas 
for Medical Sciences and between Atlanta and Tiblisi, Georgia, 
have been brought to the Committee's attention. This program 
has been mutually beneficial to both Georgias, Russia and the 
United States as young medical professionals from Russia 
receive advanced medical training delivered in a rural setting. 
The Committee strongly recommends that AID extend and expand 
this program, matched by non-Federal contributions.
    An example of a non-health partnership is the Arizona-
Kazakhstan Partnership Foundation, which began as a Tuscon-
Almaty sister city relationship in 1989 and now includes as 
many as five sub-partnerships, ranging from the Tuscon Chamber 
of Commerce to the League of Women Voters and United Way. 
Identified by AID as one of its key partnerships, the Committee 
supports the continuation, and, if feasible, the expansion of 
this and similar regional programs.

                              russia-iran

    The Committee again recommends language dealing with 
Russian nuclear and ballistic missile cooperation with Iran. 
The language is identical with that contained in existing law. 
The Committee remains extremely disturbed by reports, which 
indicate that Russian entities are extensively engaged with 
Iran in cooperative projects that significantly enhance Iran's 
ballistic missile capabilities. The ballistic missile 
cooperation, combined with Russian nuclear cooperation with 
Iran, represent a significant step in Iran's efforts to obtain 
a comprehensive, highly sophisticated weapons of mass 
destruction capability. The Committee reiterates the language 
from the fiscal year 2000 Statement of the Managers ``that 
assistance to combat infectious diseases, child survival and 
non-proliferation activities, support for regional and 
municipal governments, and partnerships between United States 
hospitals, universities, judicial training institutions and 
environmental organizations and counterparts in Russia should 
not be affected by this section.''

 Southern Caucasus region: Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia victims of 
                     the nagorno-karabagh conflict

    Again this year, the Committee designates as a high 
priority U.S. assistance to the victims of the Nagorno-Karabagh 
conflict, both those residing in and displaced from Nagorno-
Karabagh. With regard to the former, the Committee directs, 
without further delay, that the remainder of the $20,000,000 in 
humanitarian assistance initially provided in the fiscal year 
1998 Act be immediately released for obligation.

       support of peaceful resolution of South Caucasus conflicts

    The Committee reiterates themes included in its last four 
reports:
    The extent and timing of United States and multilateral 
assistance, other than humanitarian assistance, to the 
government of any country in the Caucasus region should be 
proportional to its willingness to cooperate with the Minsk 
Group and other efforts to resolve regional conflicts.
    In furtherance of a peaceful resolution to the Nagorno-
Karabagh conflict, and in support of the confidence building 
measures discussed at NATO and OSCE summits, the Committee 
strongly supports confidence-building measures among the 
parties to the conflict. Such measures could include 
strengthening compliance with the cease-fire, studying post-
conflict regional development such as water management, 
transportation routes and infrastructure, establishing a youth 
exchange program and other collaborative and humanitarian 
initiatives to foster greater understanding among the parties 
and reduce hostilities.
    The Committee has included renewed authority for the 
President to provide humanitarian assistance to the region, 
notwithstanding the restrictions of Section 907 of the FREEDOM 
Support Act. The bill language is unchanged from last year. 
This exemption allows for direct assistance by American NGOs to 
refugees and displaced persons throughout the region, including 
those in Nagorno-Karabagh. The Committee understands that 
humanitarian assistance may include a broad range of activities 
and partnerships with United States hospitals and universities 
in maternal and children's health, eldercare, basic education 
and environmental health.
    The Committee also reiterates the statement contained in 
prior year reports on this bill that its actions regarding 
Armenia and Azerbaijan are not meant to express a view on the 
political status of Nagorno-Karabagh.

                                armenia

    The Committee recommends that $82,500,000 be made available 
from funding sources in this title for Armenia. This is 
$12,500,000 above the request. The Committee is aware of the 
work of the Armenian Technology Group in assisting the Armenian 
private sector in a seed multiplication program. The Committee 
continues to support the expansion of these efforts in 
additional countries in the Central Asia region.

                                georgia

    The Committee recommends that $82,500,000 be made available 
from funding sources in this title for the Republic of Georgia. 
This is $7,500,000 less than the request. The Committee intends 
that a significant part of the assistance for Georgia continue 
to be provided for technical security assistance for border and 
export control.

                                ukraine

    The Committee recommends that not more than $125,000,000 be 
made available for Ukraine from this account. This 
recommendation is based on the completion of a long term 
parameter display systems project in nuclear safety, the 
continuing setbacks to needed reform, and the unresolved deaths 
of prominent dissidents and journalists in Ukraine. The 
Committee again notes that one of the most important elements 
of private sector development is agriculture and rural industry 
based on agriculture. The Committee supports continuing efforts 
to help emerging small, private farms and independent private 
suppliers and marketing operations in the independent states.
    As private sector development is expedited by the 
introduction of community-owned telecommunications systems, 
universal access to information gives small-scale producers 
information about market conditions that allow their businesses 
or farms to succeed. The Committee renews its advice that AID 
emphasize community-based telecommunications projects in its 
regional initiatives.

                       expanded threat reduction

    The Committee includes $15,000,000 for the bilateral U.S. 
Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) in this 
account, and not less than the request of $15,000,000 for the 
Georgia Border Security and Related Law Enforcement Assistance 
Program.
    The Committee recommends that of the amounts provided for 
ETR activities, up to $2,000,000 be made available for 
collaborative research grants for American and Russian scholars 
concerning the enhancement of verification of arms control and 
nonproliferation agreements, confidence-building measures to 
enhance international security, and economic and political 
studies of defense conversion.

                            enterprise funds

    The Committee is concerned that the initial funding 
allocations made to the U.S. Russia Investment Fund (TUSRIF) 
and the Western NIS Enterprise Fund in fiscal year 2000 were 
inadequate. The Committee urges the State Department and AID to 
provide not less than an additional $40,000,000 to TUSRIF over 
the fiscal years 2002 and 2003, as the Fund demonstrates its 
ability to promote the development of a market economy in 
Russia. The Committee commends the Fund's innovative housing 
mortgage program. In return for a more rapid rate of Federal 
investment in TUSRIF, the Committee expects it to work more 
closely with United States companies and investors and with 
businesses located in the vicinity of U.S. regional investment 
cities.
    The Committee welcomed the return of $40,000,000 to the 
U.S. Treasury by the Fund's companion enterprise fund in 
Poland, and anticipates the receipt of an additional 
$40,000,000 in fiscal year 2001. The Committee expects that 
more rapid capitalization of the U.S. Russian Investment Fund 
may lead over time to a similar repatriation of foreign aid 
funds to the U.S. Treasury.

                         violence against women

    The Committee continues to be very concerned about the 
incidence of violence against women in Russia, Ukraine, and 
Central Asia and the indifference of many law enforcement 
officials to such crimes. Funds should be made available to 
improve the response of Russia's and Central Asia's law 
enforcement and judicial system to women victims of violence.

                           Democracy Programs

    Given the increasing repression of the fledgling 
institutions of civil society and general reversal of progress 
towards democracy in the Russian Federation and Ukraine, 
$4,000,000 should be made available through the National 
Endowment for Democracy and its subgrantees to assist 
nongovernmental organizations (NGO's). Such funding should be 
made available pursuant to section 632(a) of the Foreign 
Assistance Act. Special emphasis should be given to programs 
promoting human rights, freedom of information, market reform, 
rule of law, political party development, freedom of 
association and NGO development. Attention should be devoted to 
programs outside of the capital cities and to cross-border 
programs that promote the exchange of experience and 
information among the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, 
Russia and Ukraine.

                      religious freedom in russia

    The Committee continues to be concerned about the dire 
consequences to several religious groups resulting from 
regional enforcement of the religious freedom statute in the 
Russian Federation.
    The recommended bill again includes language addressing 
this matter that is identical with language in the prior years 
Acts.
    The Committee does not intend that the limitation on 
assistance to the ``Government of the Russian Federation'' 
limit assistance for regional and municipal governments or 
partnerships between United States hospitals and universities 
and counterpart institutions in Russia.

                          Independent Agencies


                       Inter-American Foundation





Fiscal year 2001 level................................     ($12,000,000)
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................      (12,108,000)
Committee recommendation..............................        12,000,000



    The Committee recommends $12,000,000 for the Inter-American 
Foundation, as a separate account, not provided through the 
``Development Assistance'' account as in past years. The 
Committee recommendation is the same as last year's level and 
is $108,000 below the budget request. The Committee is 
concerned about the results of the USAID Inspector General 
audit (April 2, 2001) on the Inter-American Foundation's 
financial statements, compliance, and internal controls for 
fiscal year 2000. Specifically of concern to the Committee is 
the inability of the IG to express an opinion on financial 
statements because IAF's financial management systems could not 
produce complete and reliable financial statements. 
Additionally of concern are the three material internal control 
weaknesses related to financial management systems and three 
instances of material non-compliance with selected provisions 
of applicable laws and regulations. The Committee urges the IAF 
to implement the recommendations made by the IG audit and keep 
the Committee updated on a quarterly basis.

                     African Development Foundation





Fiscal year 2001 level................................     ($16,000,000)
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................      (16,042,000)
Committee recommendation..............................        16,042,000



    The Committee recommends funding for the African 
Development Foundation at a level of $16,042,000, provided as a 
separate account, not through the ``Development Assistance'' 
account as in past years. This is an increase of $42,000 above 
the fiscal year 2001 level and equal to the request.

                              Peace Corps





Fiscal year 2001 level................................      $265,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................       275,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................       275,000,000


    The Committee recommends $275,000,000 for the Peace Corps, 
an amount that is equivalent to the budget request and 
$10,000,000 above the amount enacted for fiscal year 2001. 
Prior year language addressing purchase of motor vehicles, 
abortion, and availability of funds has been continued in the 
bill. The Committee supports the work of the Peace Corps and of 
its volunteers who currently work in 76 countries.

                          Department of State


          International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement





Fiscal year 2001 level................................      $325,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................       217,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................       217,000,000



    The Committee recommends $217,000,000 for ``International 
Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement''. This is equivalent to 
the budget request and $108,000,000 less than the fiscal year 
2001 level. The 2001 enacted level included $154,000,000 for 
Andean nations, which is requested in the Andean Counterdrug 
initiative account for fiscal year 2002. A limitation of 
$16,660,000 is recommended for administrative expenses. The 
Committee has included bill language requiring that all funds 
in this account for anti-crime activities be notified in 
advance to the Committees on Appropriations, including those 
which make use of ``notwithstanding'' authority. The Committee 
supports the use of up to $10,000,000 in funds for the Africa 
Regional Anticrime Program.
    The Committee continues to support a strong U.S. 
counternarcotics assistance program in order to protect U.S. 
communities from the ravages of drugs, and believes INL has 
considerable resources, made available through annual and 
supplemental appropriations, to meet these challenges. The 
Committee is concerned about proposals by the Department of 
State to use INL program funds for an increasing number of non-
program costs, therefore the Committee has recommended a 
limitation on administrative expenses. The limitation is 
equivalent to the non-Andean administrative expenses as 
justified in the 2002 INL budget.

                               East Asia

    The Committee is concerned with the increasing illegal drug 
trafficking into the United States from East Asia, especially 
in Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines. The Committee 
continues to support International Narcotics Control programs 
in East Asia designed to strengthen law enforcement 
institutions so they can better deal with increases in drug 
trafficking. Further, the Committee commends INL for its plans 
to enhance its existing regional counter-drug cooperation 
programs in this region.

                                SW Asia

    Southwest Asia produces more opium than any other region in 
the world. The Committee encourages INL to participate in a 
joint U.S.-Pakistan initiative to curb cultivation and 
trafficking in the Khyber Agency of the Northwest Frontier 
Province.

                           drug certification

    The Committee is concerned that the United States' annual 
drug certification process fails to establish an effective and 
accountable drug policy, while creating tensions with our 
neighbor, Mexico. The Committee strongly supports change to the 
present certification process. Priority should be given to 
installing a sound accountability system where an obligation to 
deterring drug trafficking is the ultimate goal. The Committee 
asks the Secretary of State to work with the appropriate 
committees of Congress to modify the certification process to 
mirror the concerns made by the Committee.

                     Andean Counterdrug Initiative





Fiscal year 2001 level................................  ................
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................      $731,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................       676,000,000



    The Committee recommends $676,000,000 for the ``Andean 
Counterdrug Initiative''. The Andean Counterdrug Initiative is 
the first step in the Administration's multi-year counterdrug 
assistance effort designed to sustain and expand programs 
initially funded by Plan Colombia in the fiscal year 2000 
emergency supplemental. The recommended level is $55,000,000 
less than the request. The Committee recommends that the 
reduction of $55,000,000 should be evenly distributed among all 
programs, projects, and activities referred to in the 
Administration's request for the Andean Counterdrug Initiative. 
A limitation of $14,240,000 is recommended for administrative 
expenses. The 2001 level enacted for ``International Narcotics 
Control and Law Enforcement'' included $154,000,000 for Andean 
nations. The fiscal year 2000 supplemental provided for 
$1,018,500,000 in emergency funds to the Department of State 
for Plan Colombia and other regional anti-narcotics activities.
    The Committee notes that section 520 of the bill applies to 
the use of Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement and Andean 
Counterdrug Initiative funds for Colombia.

                             Andean Nations

    The Committee calls on the Department of State to ensure 
that all U.S. laws regarding human rights, including section 
556 of this Act, are strictly applied in Colombia and each of 
the Andean nations. In addition, the Committee requests that 
the Secretary of State submit to the Appropriations Committees 
a semi-annual report beginning not later than March 1, 2002, 
with respect to the Andean Counterdrug Initiative. Each report 
shall include an accounting of all aircraft, vehicles, boats 
and lethal equipment (other than ammunition) transferred to the 
militaries or police of any nation with funds made available 
under this heading. Further, the report shall contain an 
accounting of the number of U.S. Armed Forces personnel 
deployed or assigned to duty in the Andean Region or other 
nation at any time during the preceding 180 days with funds 
made available under this heading, the length and purpose of 
the deployment or assignment, and the associated costs and 
force protection risks.

                                Colombia

    The Committee believes that a negotiated settlement offers 
the only viable resolution to the complex conflict in Colombia. 
Until Colombia's warring parties reach a peace accord, efforts 
to reduce coca and heroin-poppy production in that country will 
continue to face enormous challenges. The Committee commends 
the State Department for declarations of support for President 
Pastrana's attempts to negotiate with guerrilla groups. Though 
a final accord may be several years away, the Committee 
strongly urges the Secretary of State to work with all parties 
in the talks to encourage rapid progress toward a firm and 
lasting peace.

                    Implementation of Plan Colombia

    The Committee is concerned about the pace of implementation 
of alternative development in the southern regions of Colombia. 
While the Committee is pleased that the eradication and aerial 
spraying is proceeding according to schedule, the Committee 
believes that successful alternative development programs are 
an essential component to Plan Colombia's success in Putamayo 
and Caqueta. Eradication efforts can only be sustained in the 
long-term if small farmers have an alternative to growing coca, 
therefore the Committee urges AID and the State Department to 
work with the Government of Colombia to resolve the logistical 
problems preventing the delivery of non-cash assistance to the 
communities that have signed pacts to voluntarily eradicate 
their coca crops.
    The Committee requests that the Secretary of State submit 
to the Appropriations Committees a semi-annual report beginning 
not later than March 1, 2002, with respect to the specific 
efforts being made by AID, the State Department and the 
Colombian Government to expedite the delivery of non-cash 
assistance to communities in Colombia that have signed pacts to 
voluntarily eradicate their coca crops. This report shall 
include complete data on the percentage of available 
alternative development funds that have been disbursed to 
communities in Colombia that have signed pacts to voluntarily 
eradicate their crops.
    The Committee notes that the people of Colombia have shown 
a long-term resilience and tolerance for difficult and violent 
conditions, but the Committee is concerned about the urgency of 
the current situation facing Colombia. In addition to 
heightened violence, worsening economic conditions encourage 
the narco-industry and deteriorating fiscal conditions could 
threaten the Government of Colombia's commitment to Plan 
Colombia. Stronger trade between Colombia and the United States 
in licit industries is crucial to managing the vulnerabilities 
of the Colombian economy, therefore the Committee urges the 
President of the United States to seek renewal and expansion of 
the Andean Trade Preferences Act (ATPA).
    The Committee is concerned about the possible human and 
environmental impact of materials used in aerial eradication of 
coca and opium poppy in Colombia carried out under chapter 8 of 
part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended. The 
Committee directs the Secretary of State to provide a report to 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate, on January 1, 2002, on the 
human and environmental impact of all materials used in such 
aerial coca and opium poppy eradication in Colombia. The report 
shall include guidelines for the application of aerially 
sprayed materials, scientific and other justifications for such 
guidelines, as well as a description of a verification system 
to ensure compliance with those guidelines. The Committee 
further directs that the Secretary of State provide quarterly 
reports, to be first issued January 1, 2002, concerning all 
aerial eradication efforts of the previous quarter. Such 
reports shall include a description of all areas sprayed, 
materials and methods used, compliance with the spray 
guidelines, and the human and environmental impacts of such 
spraying.

                                Bolivia

    The Committee takes special note of the progress that 
Bolivia has made in the war against drugs. The enormous success 
of the Bolivian Government's Dignity Plan has been due, in 
large part, to the support of the U.S. Government. The 
Committee urges the Administration to continue its strong 
support of Bolivia's efforts when deciding its allocation of 
aid.

                         European contributions

    The Committee notes that demand for Colombian coca is 
rising in Europe and approaching United States consumption 
levels of approximately 300 tonnes a year. European nations and 
the European Union have contributed very little to Plan 
Colombia or an expanded Andean Initiative. The Committee urges 
the Secretary of State to negotiate with our European allies in 
order to persuade them to contribute additional funds to the 
counter-narcotics efforts, alternative development, or judicial 
reform in the Andean region.

                    Migration and Refugee Assistance





Fiscal year 2001 level................................      $700,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................       715,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................       715,000,000



    The Committee recommends $715,000,000 for ``Migration and 
Refugee Assistance'', an amount that is the same as the request 
and is $15,000,000 more than the amount enacted for fiscal year 
2001. A limitation of $15,000,000 is recommended for 
administrative expenses.

                            Tibetan refugees

    The Committee supports continued funding to assist Tibetan 
refugees and directs $2,000,000 for this purpose. The Committee 
requests that the Department of State coordinate with the 
Agency for International Development in determining the funding 
responsibility for long-term assistance for Tibetan refugees, 
including assistance to refugees residing in India. In that 
regard, the Committee would support the proposal to fund the 
Tibetan Resettlement Project in Dehradum, consistent with 
Tibetan cultural practices.

                         Resettlement in Israel

    The Committee supports $60,000,000 for the resettlement of 
Russian, Eastern European, Ethiopian, and other humanitarian 
migrants in Israel. In light of the unsettled conditions in 
Russia and Ukraine as well as the increase in immigration from 
Ethiopia, the Committee believes that this level of funding 
should be sustained to ensure a continuation of essential 
programs now serving this population.

                        Magen David Adom Society

    The Committee is disappointed the International Committee 
of the Red Cross (ICRC) has not taken action to admit the Magen 
David Adom Society of Israel to the International Red Cross and 
Red Crescent Movement. The American Red Cross has promoted the 
membership of the Society in the Movement, but little or no 
positive action has been forthcoming. As a result, the American 
Red Cross has withheld its headquarters contribution to the 
ICRC for the past two years. The Committee is recommending bill 
language that would also withhold the annual headquarters 
contribution made by the Department of State unless the Magen 
David Adom Society is given the opportunity to participate in 
the activities of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent 
Movement. This limitation will not, and is not intended to, 
restrict funding for humanitarian assistance programs that may 
be programmed through the ICRC using other funds provided in 
this account. It is only intended to affect the funding of 
approximately $8,000,000 that the United States provides on an 
annual basis to the ICRC bureaucracy in Geneva.

                   unaccompanied and at-risk children

    The Committee supports funding for programs for 
unaccompanied and at-risk refugee children. The Committee 
believes that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 
(UNHCR) should pay more attention to this issue. The Committee 
recommends that the Department of State provide funding through 
nongovernmental organizations and United Nations agencies for 
children who are orphaned, separated from their parents, or 
have other special needs as a result of armed conflict or other 
causes of forced migration.

                                 unhcr

    The Committee is aware that the Department of State 
traditionally contributes twenty to twenty-five percent of the 
funds required for refugee programs managed by the United 
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and certain other 
international relief agencies. The U.S. percentage has 
escalated in the past few years as European nations have not 
followed through with pledged contributions. The Committee 
supports the High Commissioner in his efforts to increase UNHCR 
contributions from Europe.

                                 unrwa

    The Committee supports the efforts of the Department of 
State to remove anti-Semitic content in textbooks and curricula 
used in schools in the West Bank and Gaza administered by the 
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees 
in the Near East (UNRWA). The Committee has previously 
expressed concern about anti-Semitic content in Palestinian 
textbooks and supports the efforts of the Department of State 
to redress such content in UNRWA schools, including the 
appointment of an education specialist in the region to serve 
as a liaison between the Department of State, UNRWA, and the 
Palestinian Ministry of Education.

     United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund





Fiscal year 2001 level................................       $15,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................        15,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................        15,000,000


    The Committee recommends $15,000,000 for the Emergency 
Refugee and Migration Assistance (ERMA) Fund, which is the same 
as the 2001 enacted level and the same as the 2002 budget 
request.
    The Committee notes that, as of June 1, 2001, the ERMA Fund 
maintained a balance of approximately $105,000,000. Again this 
year, the ERMA Fund continues to carry forward high levels of 
balances. The Committee considers it appropriate for the ERMA 
Fund to maintain a sizable balance, since the purpose of this 
account is to facilitate a quick response to humanitarian 
emergencies. The Committee is concerned that the Administration 
may be using an overly stringent standard in judging whether to 
draw down the ERMA Fund. The primary criterion for the use of 
these resources should be the emergency needs of refugees and 
other persons who fall within the mandate of the ERMA Fund. The 
Committee directs the Administration to use this Fund when 
these populations face serious threats to their security or 
physical well-being and other resources are not available to 
address these threats. The Committee does not wish to see a 
situation in which critical humanitarian needs go unmet while a 
large fund created to address these needs largely remains 
untouched.

    Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related Programs





Fiscal year 2001 level................................      $311,600,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................       332,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................       311,000,000


    The Committee recommends a total appropriation of 
$311,000,000 for ``Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining 
and Related Programs'', an amount that is $21,000,000 below the 
request and $600,000 below the fiscal year 2001 enacted level.
    The Committee recommendation funds the President's budget 
request for this account with the exception of the additional 
funding requested for the Lockerbie trial support 
(-$16,000,000) and a reduction of $5,000,000 in the funding for 
the Korean Peninsula Economic Development Organization (KEDO).
    The Committee has included bill language from the fiscal 
year 2001 appropriations act that imposes the requirement for 
notice prior to the obligation of funds for the CTBT 
Preparatory Commission.
    The following is a chart that indicates fiscal year 2001 
funding for the programs covered by this account, as well as 
the President's request for fiscal year 2002 and the Committee 
recommendation:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                            Fiscal year 2001  Fiscal year 2002      Committee
                    Program or activity                       funding level        request       recommendation
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund.....................        14,967,000        14,000,000        14,000,000
Export Control Assistance.................................        19,100,000        17,000,000        17,000,000
Science Centers...........................................        35,000,000        37,000,000        37,000,000
IAEA voluntary contribution...............................        47,000,000        49,000,000        49,000,000
CTBT Preparatory Commission...............................        21,056,000        20,000,000        20,000,000
Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization..........        54,879,000        95,000,000        90,000,000
Nonproliferation contingency..............................        20,000,000  ................  ................
Anti-Terrorism Assistance.................................        38,000,000        38,000,000        38,000,000
Terrorist Interdiction Program............................         4,000,000         4,000,000         4,000,000
Lockerbie Trial Support...................................        15,000,000        16,000,000  ................
Humanitarian Demining Program.............................        39,912,000        40,000,000        40,000,000
Small Arms Destruction....................................         2,000,000         2,000,000         2,000,000
Rescission................................................           686,000  ................  ................
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
    Total budget authority................................       311,600,000       332,000,000       311,000,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    The funding reduction for KEDO is being made with the 
expectation the Administration will renew its efforts to obtain 
funding from other donors to help offset the increase in costs 
for the provision of heavy fuel oil for North Korea pursuant to 
the Agreed Framework. Regarding the funding for the Lockerbie 
Trial, the Committee is very concerned about the types of costs 
that are being charged to the United States in connection with 
this trial, and believes that sufficient funds were made 
available in fiscal year 2001.

                            kosovo demining

    The Committee is very concerned about the extent to which 
additional unexploded ordnance (UXO) and mine removal may be 
needed in Kosovo. While the United Nations has general 
authority for mine removal activities in that region, the 
Committee is aware there may be an unmet need for additional 
resources. Therefore the Committee directs the Secretary of 
State to report to the Committee on Appropriations no later 
than February 1, 2002, with (1) an assessment of the UXO 
removal and demining activities that have occurred in Kosovo; 
(2) an assessment of the remaining needs for such removal; and 
(3) recommendations as to how the need for additional resources 
can be met. In that regard, the Committee encourages the 
Department of State to examine the use of the Rapid Response 
Program of the Corps of Engineers as a mechanism for providing 
for UXO removal and demining activities. In addition, the 
Committee would support the reprogramming of funds provided 
under the heading ``Assistance for Eastern Europe and the 
Baltic States'' and within this account to help meet a possible 
funding shortfall for these activities.

                       Department of the Treasury


               International Affairs Technical Assistance





Fiscal year 2001 level................................        $6,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................         6,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................         6,000,000


    The Committee recommends $6,000,000 under this heading for 
international technical assistance by the Department of the 
Treasury, an amount that is the same as the request and last 
year's level. In operation since 1991, Treasury's Office of 
Technical Assistance provides expert fiscal and monetary policy 
advisors to countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern 
Europe. Beginning in fiscal year 1999, Treasury created the 
Treasury International Affairs Technical Assistance (TIATA) 
program and expanded the countries to Asia, Africa and Latin 
America. With the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and 
other conditions required by the poorest nations to qualify for 
HIPC debt relief, the Committee directs the Department of 
Treasury to begin to focus half of the funds under this heading 
to assisting eight or more HIPC nations. Additionally, the 
Committee has required that these funds be subject to 
notification procedures and therefore directs the Department to 
report back to the Committee on its plans for HIPC nations for 
fiscal year 2002 prior to the release of the funds.

        Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis





Fiscal year 2001 level................................  ................
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................      $100,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................  ................


    The Committee is not recommending establishment of a 
separate account for a proposed multilateral health trust fund, 
as proposed by the President. Instead, full funding would be 
provided from the ``Child Survival and Health Programs Fund'' 
in this bill and from the unobligated balance reserved for a 
multilateral HIV/AIDS trust fund in the fiscal year 2001 Act.

                           Debt Restructuring





Fiscal year 2001 level................................      $238,000,000
    Emergency funding.................................       210,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................       224,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................       224,000,000


    The Committee recommends $224,000,000 for debt 
restructuring for fiscal year 2002. This is $224,000,000 below 
the amount enacted in 2001, including emergency funding, and 
the same as the request. The Committee supports the request for 
debt relief that, with $16,000,000 in carryover balances, will 
complete the US pledge to the HIPC Trust Fund. It also directs 
that up to $25,000,000 in prior year funds be used to implement 
the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998, $12,000,000 more 
than the request, which provided the funds as a transfer from 
``Development Assistance.''

                            hipc trust fund

    The vehicle for contributions to multilateral development 
banks is the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Trust Fund 
that was created and is administered by the International Bank 
for Reconstruction and Development. The HIPC Trust Fund accepts 
contributions from more developed countries to help the Inter-
American Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the 
Central American Bank for Economic Integration, and possibly 
other financial institutions, to defray the cost of writing 
down unserviceable debt owed by certain member countries.
    The following table indicates the financial status of the 
HIPC Trust Fund as of May 30, 2001:

                  [Amounts in millions of U.S. dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                 Contributions
                                    received      Pledges       Total
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Australia......................            10             2           12
Austria........................            17            25           42
Belgium........................            40   ...........           40
Canada.........................           112   ...........          112
Denmark........................            50            10           60
Finland........................            25             8           33
France.........................           160            21          181
Germany........................           178            48          226
Greece.........................             9             2           11
Iceland........................             1             1            2
Ireland........................            19             5           24
Italy..........................           105            48          153
Japan..........................            56           144          200
Luxembourg.....................             2   ...........            2
Netherlands....................           172   ...........          172
New Zealand....................             2   ...........            2
Norway.........................            79   ...........           79
Portugal.......................            21   ...........           21
Spain..........................            54            70          124
Sweden.........................            46            35           81
Switzerland....................            45            15           60
United Kingdom.................           161           145          306
United States..................  .............          600          600
                                ----------------------------------------
    Total......................           978         1,566        2,544
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Since the above table was made available to the Committee, 
a $122,740,000 initial contribution to the trust fund has been 
made by the US and will allow for debt relief to Bolivia, 
Honduras, Madagascar, and Sao Tome & Principe. Each of these 
four countries has demonstrated its commitment to redirect 
budgetary savings from debt servicing to programs that reduce 
poverty and promote economic growth. The Committee's cautious 
approach to funding for the HIPC Trust Fund continues. It is 
the Committee's view the HIPC Initiative will be extremely 
difficult to implement. Public and private vigilance will be 
required to ensure that domestic budgetary savings resulting 
from reduced sovereign debt payments under the HIPC Initiative 
will, in fact, be used by poor country governments solely for 
economic growth and social/health activities aimed at poverty 
alleviation. Additionally, the Committee believes that debt 
relief was not intended to be the one solution to the 
challenges facing HIPC countries. Instead it must be seen as 
only one step toward poverty alleviation that, if not 
accompanied by effective reforms and an improvement of the 
conditions that attract investment and economic growth, will 
result in only short lived benefits to the poorest peoples of 
the world.

             conditions on contributions to hipc trust fund

    The Committee has included bill language prohibiting United 
States contributions to the HIPC Trust Fund on behalf of any 
country credibly reported to be a gross violator of 
internationally recognized human rights or is engaged in a 
civil or military conflict that undermines its ability to 
fulfill the HIPC criteria regarding poverty alleviation.
    The Committee also has recommend bill language that 
conditions funding for the HIPC Trust Fund on Agreement that 
new lending to HIPC participants by beneficiary multilateral 
development banks be deferred for up to 24 months. It is the 
Committee's intent that debt reduction under the enhanced HIPC 
Initiative not be taken as a signal for renewed lending by 
international financial institutions or export financing 
agencies.

       accountability and future support for the hipc initiative

    The Committee again requests quarterly reports on 
obligations made from this account, and on the purposes for 
which the funds are obligated. During the first quarter of the 
fiscal year, the Department of the Treasury should continue to 
report to the Committee pursuant to the regular notification 
procedures of the Committees on Appropriations on the intended 
use of the funds provided in this account. Such report should 
specify the countries that would receive debt restructuring 
during fiscal year 2002. The Committee understands that credit 
ratings can fluctuate during the year, thus resulting in a 
change in the budget cost necessary to restructure debt.

       United States Community Adjustment and Investment Program





Fiscal year 2001 level................................  ................
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................           500,000
Committee recommendation..............................  ................


    The Committee is not recommending additional appropriations 
at this time for a domestic program for community investment 
and adjustment within the United States. The Community 
Adjustment and Investment Program was initially ``fully 
funded'' with a 3-year capitalization of $22,500,000 and since 
has received $20,000,000 in additional appropriations to date. 
Based on a September 2000 GAO report, the CAIP has systemic 
problems in its organizational structure; a management system 
that hinders efficient program management; and faulty 
eligibility procedures. The Committee is not aware of how an 
additional $500,000 to the CAIP could improve US trade 
adjustment assistance in 2002.

                     TITLE III--MILITARY ASSISTANCE


                  Funds Appropriated to the President


             International Military Education and Training





Fiscal year 2001 level................................       $55,000,000
    Emergency funding.................................         2,875,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................        65,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................        65,000,000


    The Committee recommends $65,000,000 for the International 
Military Education and Training program, which represents an 
increase of $7,125,000 above the fiscal year 2001 level and is 
the same as the requested level.

                        indonesia and guatemala

    The Committee includes prior year bill language limiting 
Indonesia and Guatemala to Expanded IMET only. Funding for both 
is subject to notification.

                             expanded imet

    The Committee strongly supports the continuation of 
Expanded IMET (E-IMET) programs. In that regard, the Committee 
notes that part of the success of the E-IMET programs is 
dependent on appropriate equipment critical to the learning 
process. For example, equipment that enhances simultaneous 
translation capacity or remote or distance learning 
teleconferencing could greatly advance the reach and efficiency 
of E-IMET programs. Yet, there is no consideration within the 
program budget for such needs. Consequently, the Committee 
requests that the Administration make funds available within 
the E-IMET program as needed to support equipment and other 
infrastructure requirements of E-IMET programs.
    The Committee also urges the Departments of State and 
Defense to favorably consider funding to develop an educational 
program in security building and peace support operations at 
the Naval Postgraduate School. In addition, the Administration 
should consider the development of programs to help nations 
institutionalize financial integrity, accountability and 
transparency in defense budgeting. Such programs could also 
help nations eliminate unnecessary forces and military 
infrastructure, so that their scarce defense resources can be 
focused on priorities critical to making them effective 
security partners with the United States.

                           greece and turkey

    For fiscal year 2002, section 512 of the Security 
Assistance Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-280) authorizes up to 
$1,000,000 in assistance for Greece and up to $2,500,000 in 
assistance for Turkey from funds that are authorized to be 
appropriated for International Military Education and Training. 
From the increase in funds recommended for this account, the 
Committee supports an increase in assistance for Greece and 
Turkey consistent with the authorization levels.

                                 chile

    The Committee is aware of the decision by the Chilean 
Appeals Court on July 9, 2001 to declare Augusto Pinochet 
mentally unfit to stand trial for crimes committed during his 
17-year presidency. While the Committee does not encourage the 
prosecution of any person who is mentally incapacitated, the 
Committee would be concerned if it becomes apparent that 
pressure from the military played a role in this decision. The 
Committee strongly encourages the Chilean military to respect 
the independence of the judiciary and urges the Departments of 
Defense and State to emphasize this point in the training and 
education provided to the Chilean military with IMET funds.

                  report on foreign military training

    The Committee is concerned by the extent of information 
classified in the fiscal year 2001 Foreign Military Training 
Report. The Committee requests the Departments of State and 
Defense, when preparing and presenting the Foreign Military 
Training and Defense Department Engagement Activities of 
Interest report to Congress in fiscal year 2002 (consistent 
with national security requirements) not classify aggregate 
training numbers by country; declassify to the greatest extent 
possible information about foreign units trained, the location 
of training and U.S. trainers' units; provide accurate course 
descriptions; distinguish between the number of courses given 
and the number of students trained; and report estimates for 
coming-year training that include all categories reported.

                           imet availability

    The Committee has retained language from fiscal year 2001 
which provides that, of the funds made available for IMET, 
$1,000,000 may remain available until expended.

                   Foreign Military Financing Program





Fiscal year 2001 level................................    $3,545,000,000
    Emergency funding.................................        31,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................     3,674,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................     3,627,000,000


    The Committee recommends $3,627,000,000 in Foreign Military 
Financing grants. This program level is $51,000,000 above the 
fiscal year 2001 level and $47,000,000 below the President's 
request. If emergency supplemental funding is excluded from the 
calculation, the recommended level is $82,000,000 above the 
fiscal year 2001 level. The funding level assumes an increase 
above last year's level of $60,000,000 for Israel, as requested 
by the President.
    The Committee remains strongly supportive of the goals of 
the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) grants program. However, 
the Security Assistance Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-280) 
contains an authorization ceiling that is $47,000,000 below the 
President's request. Therefore the Committee is complying with 
the authorization ceiling.

                                 israel

    The Committee recommends a total Foreign Military Financing 
(FMF) program of not less than $2,040,000,000 in grants for 
Israel which shall be available within 30 days of enactment or 
by October 31, 2001, whichever is later.
    It is the Committee's view that while Israel's economy has 
improved significantly in recent years, the security situation 
in the Middle East has worsened. Therefore, the Committee is 
convinced the United States must make every effort to carry out 
its long-standing policy of ensuring that Israel's 
technological edge is maintained. As a result, the Committee 
has provided an increase of $60,000,000 above the fiscal year 
2001 level, as requested by the President. The Committee also 
believes that a sustained military improvement program will be 
required over the next ten years, at an annual rate of 
approximately $60,000,000, to assist Israel in responding to 
these emerging security challenges. However, with respect to 
this recommended increase in military assistance, the Committee 
must be very clear that it cannot commit future Congresses to 
the future appropriation of funds. Therefore, future increases 
in military assistance will require the annual review of the 
Congress and will necessarily be based upon an assessment of 
the security situation at the time.
    The Committee also recommends that, to the extent that the 
Government of Israel requests that FMF grant funds for Israel 
be used for such purposes, and as agreed by Israel and the 
United States, funds may be made available for advanced weapons 
systems of which $535,000,000 shall be available for the 
procurement in Israel of defense articles and defense services, 
including research and development. This represents a 
$15,000,000 increase over the fiscal year 2001 level and 
reflects a recognition by the Committee of Israel's need for 
similar annual increases over the next few years in order to 
provide Israel with increased flexibility in meeting the 
emerging security challenges in the Middle East.

                                 jordan

    The Committee strongly supports the Administration's 
efforts to improve Jordanian security and therefore recommends 
full funding of the President's request of $75,000,000 for 
Jordan. Under the able leadership of King Abdullah, Jordan 
plays a critical role in supporting peace and security in the 
Middle East. The Committee is well aware that Jordan's security 
requirements are extensive, particularly in the areas of ground 
force modernization and border security.

                                 egypt

    The Committee recommends a total of $1,300,000,000 in 
Foreign Military Financing grants for Egypt.
    Pursuant to the President's budget request bill language is 
recommended that would require that funds estimated to be 
outlayed for Egypt during fiscal year 2002 shall be transferred 
to an interest bearing account for Egypt in the Federal Reserve 
Bank of New York within 30 days of enactment of this Act or by 
October 31, 2001, whichever is later. The Committee fully 
appreciates Egypt's strategic location, its immediate proximity 
to Libya and Sudan both of which have supported international 
terrorism; its critical contribution during the Gulf War in 
resisting Iraqi aggression; and its essential role in the 
Middle East peace process. The Committee is convinced that 
continued military cooperation between Egypt and the United 
States remains in the national security interests of both 
countries.

                              the baltics

    The Committee strongly supports at least the Presidents' 
budget request of $21,000,000 for Estonia, Latvia, and 
Lithuania. Previous years' funding has significantly supported 
the commendable efforts of these countries to attain Western 
military standards and to improve their capacities to 
contribute to international security through the provision of 
peacekeepers to international peacekeeping missions.

                        administrative expenses

    The Committee has recommended a limitation on 
administrative expenses of $35,000,000. This is the same as the 
level requested by the President and $2,000,000 above the 
fiscal year 2001 level.

                  foreign military financing surcharge

    The Committee has included a limitation on Foreign Military 
Financing operating costs of $348,000,000. This limitation may 
be waived pursuant to the regular notification procedures of 
the Committees on Appropriations. This is $8,000,000 more than 
the fiscal year 2001 level and the same as the request.

                          fmf expenditure rate

    The Committee continues prior year language that requires 
that Foreign Military Financing funds be expended at the 
minimum rate necessary to make timely payments for defense 
articles and services. In addition, it continues language 
providing that such funds shall be obligated upon apportionment 
in order to allow for the orderly execution of program funds.

                         procurement agreements

    The Committee has continued prior year language requiring 
recipients of Foreign Military Financing grants to sign 
agreements with the United States prior to using FMF funds to 
finance the procurement of any item not sold by the United 
States under the Arms Export Control Act.

                              prohibitions

    The Committee has included bill language prohibiting 
military assistance to Sudan and Liberia. The Administration 
did not request military assistance for Sudan or Liberia for 
fiscal year 2002.
    The Committee continues to support United States assistance 
to Guatemala to implement the Guatemalan peace accords. 
However, the Committee is concerned about limited progress in 
certain areas such as strengthening Guatemala's justice system 
and reform of the Guatemalan military. The Committee urges the 
Government of Guatemala to guarantee the safety of those 
working for human rights. It is also concerned about attacks 
and threats against journalists in Guatemala.
    The Committee retains the existing ban on Foreign Military 
Financing and International Military Education and Training 
(IMET), with the exception of E-IMET, until adequate reforms of 
the Guatemalan Armed Forces are carried out as established in 
the peace accords. The Committee is concerned about the 
postponement of the disbanding of the Presidential General 
Staff (EMP) and its replacement by civilian institutions.

                        Peacekeeping Operations





Fiscal year 2001 level................................      $127,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................       135,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................       135,000,000



    The Committee recommends $135,000,000 for voluntary 
contributions for international peacekeeping operations. This 
amount is $8,000,000 above the level provided in fiscal year 
2001, and is the same as the President's request.

               TITLE IV--MULTILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE


                  International Financial Institutions


                      Global Environment Facility





Fiscal year 2001 level................................      $108,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................       107,500,000
Committee recommendation..............................        82,500,000


    The Committee recommends $82,500,000 for the Global 
Environment Facility (GEF), administered by the World Bank. The 
recommendation is $25,000,000 below the request and $25,500,000 
less than the amount enacted for 2001.

       Contribution to the International Development Association





Fiscal year 2001 level................................      $775,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................       803,400,000
Committee recommendation..............................       803,400,000


    The Committee is providing $803,400,000 for the U.S. 
contribution to the Thirteenth Replenishment of the 
International Development Association (IDA), the same as the 
request and a $28,400,000 increase above the 2001 enacted 
level.
    The Committee directs the Secretary of the Treasury to 
vigorously advocate that the upcoming pledging session for IDA 
provide all-grant assistance to each HIPC debt forgiveness 
beneficiary for a period of 3 years following its HIPC decision 
point. With respect to its support for multilateral debt 
forgiveness under certain conditions and conversion of IDA to 
an agency making poverty alleviation grants, the Committee 
concurs with the March, 2000 recommendations of the 
International Financial Institution Advisory Commission (the 
Meltzer Commission).

      Contribution to the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency





Fiscal year 2001 level................................       $10,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................        10,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................        10,000,000


    The Committee is providing $10,000,000 for an additional 
U.S. payment to the World Bank's Multilateral Investment 
Guarantee Agency, the same level as the request and the 2001 
enacted level.

             (Limitation on callable capital subscriptions)




Fiscal year 2001 level................................     ($50,000,000)
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................      (50,000,000)
Committee recommendation..............................      (50,000,000)


              General Concerns About the World Bank Group


                        private sector strategy

    The Committee again commends the IDA-12 Deputies for 
recognizing the critical role undertaken by the private sector 
in developing countries. The entire World Bank Group should 
have a complementary and not competitive role with private 
sector investment in developing countries. The Committee urges 
the Secretary of the Treasury to work with the World Bank Group 
to develop a private sector strategy that is consistent with 
its commitment to sustainable economic growth, including a 
social and environmental investment screen for World Bank Group 
lending that supports the private sector.

                         environment and energy

    The Committee is aware that there is ample private 
financing for the energy sector in most developing countries, 
although inappropriate forms of public control have acted as a 
significant investment barrier in some. It is also aware that 
over the past 25 years, energy remains a valuable resource but 
is no longer scarce. Central Asia and Africa are now recognized 
as important future alternatives to dependence on Middle East 
fossil fuel energy, and wind power is becoming commercially 
viable in some regions. The Committee no longer anticipates a 
global energy shortage in the foreseeable future. However, 
where affordable and cleaner energy is not available, job 
growth, poverty alleviation, and health improvement all come to 
an abrupt halt and often decline.
    As the primary justification for using public money in the 
energy and extractive sectors is to underpin economic 
development with sound policy, both technical assistance 
through AID and financial participation by the multilateral 
banks must focus on putting into place new policies, laws, and 
regulations that would otherwise not occur. These serve to 
insure that the income from valuable natural resources benefits 
the population at large, not just a few officials at the 
receiving end of the transaction. The involvement of AID, OPIC 
or the World Bank can provide support for the efforts of United 
States companies that seek to protect the environment and 
corporate reputations in their dealings with foreign leaders 
who demonstrate minimal concern for the welfare of their own 
citizens or good governance.

                               objectives

    The Committee is concerned that with the many reform 
proposals for the World Bank over the years, few have resulted 
in major changes to the Bank's basic structure or function. The 
Committee believes the World Bank and other multilateral 
development banks should have a clear set of objectives with 
the top priority to raise the standard of living of people 
throughout the world. The Committee supports the Treasury 
Department's attempts to focus the World Bank's core objective 
to raising per capita income, and the Committee urges the 
Administration to include basic education in the scope of 
activities that fall under this purpose.

                               education

    The Committee understands that the World Bank is having 
difficulty fulfilling its pledge made at the April 2000, 
Education for All Forum in Senegal to increase its education 
lending by 50 percent. The World Bank's efforts to help 
developing countries attain the goal of universal, free basic 
education by 2015 will be critical if these countries are to 
meet this objective. The Committee urges the Secretary of the 
Treasury to work with the World Bank to increase resource 
allocation, and to make the necessary adjustments in its 
education lending program to ensure effective delivery of 
loans. The Committee directs the Secretary of the Treasury to 
report on the progress of these efforts no later than 90 days 
after the enactment of this Act.

 environmental and social assessment of structural adjustment programs

    The Committee notes that more than three-eighths of the 
World Bank's portfolio supports structural adjustment. This 
type of lending is exempt from the environmental assessment 
guidelines that cover individual projects. An internal World 
Bank study concluded that the Bank rarely considers the 
environmental and social impacts of these loans when they are 
in the design process. The Committee directs the Secretary of 
the Treasury and the U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank 
to work with management to institute a dynamic, participatory 
process to assess the environmental and social impacts of 
structural adjustment loans.

       Contribution to the Inter-American Development Bank Group

    The Committee notes that again this year, there is no 
request for additional purchases of ordinary or callable 
capital stock of the Inter-American Development Bank or a 
request for the Bank's concessional window, the Fund for 
Special Operations, which is now self-sustaining as a result of 
repayments of prior year loans. Nonetheless, the Inter-American 
Development Bank expects to benefit from appropriations 
provided under the heading ``Debt Restructuring'' in title II 
for the purpose of repaying unsustainable loans previously 
incurred by heavily indebted poor countries in the region.

                 Inter-American Investment Corporation





Fiscal year 2001 level................................       $25,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................        25,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................        10,000,000


    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $10,000,000 of 
the scheduled annual United States purchase of share capital of 
the Inter-American Investment Corporation. The recommendation 
is $15,000,000 less than the request and the 2001 enacted 
level.
    For the past 10 years, the Inter-American Investment 
Corporation has supported small and medium private enterprises 
in Latin America and the Caribbean through strategic equity 
investments and loans. The small and medium enterprise sector 
is the major source of new jobs and economic growth in the 
region, but is generally overlooked by multilateral banks that 
focus on the public sector and bilateral donor agencies that 
focus on microenterprise credit.

                      Multilateral Investment Fund

    There is no request in the 2002 budget for an appropriation 
to the Multilateral Investment Fund.

                      Asian Development Bank Group

    There is no request in the 2002 budget for paid-in or 
callable capital stock of the Asian Development Bank.

               Contribution to the Asian Development Fund





Fiscal year 2001 level................................       $72,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................       103,017,000
Committee recommendation..............................       103,017,000


    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $103,017,000 
for the concessional Asian Development Fund, an amount that is 
$31,017,000 above the amount provided in fiscal year 2001 and 
the same as the amount requested.

              Contribution to the African Development Bank





Fiscal year 2001 level................................        $6,100,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................         5,100,000
Committee recommendation..............................         5,100,000


    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $5,100,000 for 
the African Development Bank, an amount that is $1,000,000 
below the amount provided in fiscal year 2001 and the same as 
the amount requested.

             (Limitation on callable capital subscriptions)




Fiscal year 2001 level................................     ($97,548,522)
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................      (79,991,500)
Committee recommendation..............................      (79,991,500)


    The African Development Bank expects to benefit from 
appropriations provided under the heading ``Debt 
Restructuring'' in title II for the purpose of repaying 
unsustainable loans previously incurred by heavily indebted 
poor countries in the region.

              Contribution to the African Development Fund





Fiscal year 2001 level................................      $100,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................       100,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................       100,000,000


    The recommendation for the soft loan African Development 
Fund is $100,000,000, the same as the amount requested and the 
same as the amount provided in fiscal year 2001.

  Contribution to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development





Fiscal year 2001 level................................       $35,778,717
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................        35,778,717
Committee recommendation..............................        35,778,717


             (Limitation on callable capital subscriptions)




Fiscal year 2001 level................................    ($123,237,803)
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................     (123,237,803)
Committee recommendation..............................     (123,237,803)



    The Committee is recommending $35,778,717 for the European 
Bank for Reconstruction and Development. This amount is 
identical to the appropriation provided in fiscal year 2001 and 
the same as the President's request.

  Contribution to the International Fund for Agricultural Development





Fiscal year 2001 level................................        $5,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................        20,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................        20,000,000



    The Committee is again providing a separate appropriation 
for the International Fund for Agricultural Development, 
reflecting the assumption of responsibility for this 
multilateral institution by the Department of the Treasury in 
February, 2000. The fiscal year 2002 recommendation is 
$20,000,000, the same as the request and $15,000,000 above the 
amount provided in 2001.

                International Organizations and Programs





Fiscal year 2001 level................................      $186,000,000
Fiscal year 2002 request..............................       186,000,000
Committee recommendation..............................       196,000,000



    The Committee has recommended $196,000,000 for 
International Organizations and Programs. This is $10,000,000 
more than the fiscal year 2001 level and $10,000,000 more than 
the President's request. As in fiscal year 2001, funding for a 
grant to UNICEF is provided in the ``Child Survival and Disease 
Programs Fund'' under title II.
    The Committee recommendation also continues prior year bill 
language prohibiting the use of funds for the Korean Peninsula 
Energy Development Organization (KEDO) or the International 
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Both organizations are funded 
under ``Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related 
Programs''.
    The Committee requires the Department of State to report 
back to the Committee within 90 days and submit all United 
Nations Fund For Population Activities (UNFPA) agreements that 
have been signed with local, provincial and national 
governments of China relating to administration of UNFPA 
programs in China.

                   united nations development program

    The Committee appreciates recent efforts of the United 
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to streamline its mission 
and to focus primarily on enhancing governance, seeking out 
innovative pilot programs, and forming strategic partnerships. 
The Committee urges the UNDP to continue on this productive 
path, and recommends a level not less than $97,100,000 in 
International Organizations and Programs funding be set aside 
to support the UNDP.

          united nations voluntary fund for victims of torture

    The Committee supports not less than $5,000,000 for the 
U.S. contribution to the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of 
Torture. Assisting these centers not only reinforces U.S. 
opposition to human rights violations but has proven to be an 
effective method for lessening the incidence of torture and 
promotes human rights and democracy abroad. The Committee urges 
the Department of State to negotiate with other governments to 
persuade them to increase their contributions to the Fund.

                      TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS

    The Committee recommends that several of the general 
provisions carried in the fiscal year 2001 act be deleted. 
These provisions are either addressed elsewhere in permanent 
law, have been considered by the appropriate authorizing 
committee, or are no longer necessary.
    The Committee recommends the following new and revised 
general provisions.
    Sec. 502, ``Private and Voluntary Organizations'' is a new 
general provision that repeats language previously carried 
under that heading in title II; the language prohibits funds 
for any United States private and voluntary organization, 
except any cooperative development organization, which obtains 
less than 20 percent of its total annual funding for 
international activities from sources other than the United 
States government, but allows the Administrator of AID to waive 
this prohibition on a case-by-case basis after taking into 
account various factors; it also specifies that funds 
appropriated under title II should be made available to private 
and voluntary organizations at a level at least equivalent to 
the fiscal year 1995 level.
    Sec. 505, ``Limitation on Representational Allowances'' is 
modified by limiting representation expenses associated with 
funds made available under ``Foreign Military Financing 
Program'' to $150,000.
    Sec. 508, ``Military Coups'' is modified to specify that 
resumption of assistance to a country that was previously 
suspended as the result of an elected head of government being 
deposed by decree or military coup may occur if the President 
determines that a democratically elected government has taken 
office or substantial progress has been made towards the 
holding of elections; prior year language limited the 
resumption of assistance to a determination that a 
democratically elected government had taken office.
    Sec. 511, ``Availability of Funds'' is modified to add 
funds appropriated to carry out section 23 of the Arms Export 
Control Act to the list of funds that may remain available 
until for an extended period of time if obligated before the 
expiration of their periods of availability, and to limit the 
extended availability of funds obligated prior to the 
expiration of their availability to four years. The final 
proviso of this section, requiring a specific report on balance 
of payment and economic policy reform, is deleted.
    Sec. 512, ``Limitation on Assistance to Countries in 
Default'', is modified to allow for a waiver of the provisions 
of this section if the President determines, following 
consultations with the Committees on Appropriations, that 
assistance to a country otherwise prohibited from receiving 
funds is in the national interest of the United States.
    Sec. 515, ``Notification Requirements'' is modified by 
changing the name of the account ``Child Survival and Disease 
Programs Fund'' to ``Child Survival and Health Programs Fund'' 
consistent with the modification to the name of the account 
made in title II.
    Sec. 520, ``Special Notification Requirements'' is modified 
to delete Serbia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.
    Sec. 523, ``Prohibition Against Indirect Funding to Certain 
Countries'' is modified by replacing People's Republic of China 
with Sudan to make it consistent with section 507, 
``Prohibition Against Direct Funding for Certain Countries''.
    Sec. 524, ``Notification on Excess Defense Equipment'' is 
modified to limit the notifications of excess defense articles 
to those that are significant military equipment or had an 
original acquisition cost of $7,000,000 or more, of if the 
recipient country is subject to notification elsewhere in this 
Act.
    Sec. 525, ``Authorization Requirement'' is modified to add 
the Trade and Development Agency and the Peace Corps to the 
list of accounts that are exempted from the waiver of the 
authorization requirement.
    Sec. 526, ``Democracy Programs'' is modified by deleting 
language authorizing grants for democracy activities in China, 
which are now authorized in section 514(c) of Public Law 106-
286; to allow up to $3,000,000, rather than $2,000,000, for 
support of nongovernmental organizations located outside China 
to support activities which preserve cultural traditions and 
promote sustainable development and environmental conservation 
in Tibetan communities in that country; to delete a provision 
that amended a previous appropriations act; and to require a 
notification for certain activities in China.
    Sec. 532, ``Authorities for the Peace Corps, Inter-American 
Foundation and African Development Foundation'' is modified by 
removing subsection (b), which had exempted the International 
Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) from limitations on 
the availability of funds appropriated under ``International 
Organizations and Programs''; IFAD is now appropriated in title 
IV as a separate account.
    Sec. 533, ``Impact on Jobs in the United States'' is 
modified by deleting subsection (b), which affected assistance 
to a foreign country for certain specified processing zones or 
designated areas.
    Sec. 534, ``Special Authorities'' is modified to carry 
language that had been carried in another provision to provide 
that section 576 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, 
and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1997, as amended, 
shall not apply to the provision of assistance from 
international financial institutions to the Federal Republic of 
Yugoslavia (the same language was carried in section 594 of the 
fiscal year 2001 appropriations act); it is also modified to 
provide that during fiscal year 2002, the President may use up 
to $50,000,000 under the authority of section 451 of the 
Foreign Assistance Act, notwithstanding the funding ceiling in 
section 451(a).
    Sec. 537, ``Eligibility for Assistance'' is modified to 
prohibit the provisions of the section from applying to 
assistance to the government of a country that violates section 
116 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
    Sec. 538, ``Earmarks'' is modified by deleting references 
to base rights countries.
    Sec. 541, ``Purchase of American-Made Equipment and 
Products'' is modified by deleting subsections (b), (c), and 
(d).
    Sec. 543, ``Nongovernmental Organizations--Documentation'' 
is modified by changing the title and language in the provision 
from ``private voluntary'' to ``nongovernmental''.
    Sec. 544, ``Prohibition on Assistance to Foreign 
Governments that Export Lethal Military Equipment to Countries 
Supporting International Terrorism'' is modified by updating a 
reference to section 6(j) of the Export Administration Act.
    Sec. 547, ``War Crimes Tribunals Drawdown'' is modified by 
removing a requirement for specified reports that were due 
during fiscal year 2001.
    Sec. 558, ``Assistance for the Middle East'' is modified by 
reducing the cap on Middle East spending from $5,241,150,000 to 
$5,141,150,000.
    Sec. 560, ``Cambodia'' is modified to exempt assistance for 
basic education from the funding limitation of the section.
    Sec. 562, ``Korean Peninsula Energy Development 
Organization'' is modified by limiting funds for KEDO to 
$95,000,000 and providing for certain certification and 
reporting requirements.
    Sec. 563, ``PLO Compliance Report'' is a new section.
    Sec. 565, ``Iraq'' is modified by authorizing assistance 
under the ``Economic Support Fund'' for programs benefiting the 
Iraqi people and to support efforts to bring about political 
transition in Iraq.
    Sec. 568, ``Indonesia'' is modified to refer to Indonesian 
Ministry of Defense or military personnel, rather than 
Indonesia, for the purposes of applying this section to the 
possible provision of assistance for Indonesia.
    Sec. 569, ``Man and the Biosphere'' is modified by removing 
the reference to the World Heritage Fund.
    Sec. 572, ``Voluntary Separation Incentives'' amends 
existing law to provide authority for an additional year for 
the Agency for International Development to extend voluntary 
separation incentives to certain employees.
    Sec. 577, ``Abolition of the Inter-American Foundation'' is 
modified to extend the authorities of this section for an 
additional year.
    Sec. 578, ``War Criminals'' is modified to provide that 
none of the funds appropriated pursuant to this Act may be made 
available, with the exception of humanitarian assistance and 
assistance for democratization, to any country, entity, or 
municipality whose competent authorities have failed to take 
necessary and significant steps to apprehend and transfer to 
the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia 
all persons publicly indicted by the Tribunal unless such 
authorities are (1) cooperating with the Tribunal in specified 
ways and (2) taking steps that are consistent with the Dayton 
Accords; in addition, a waiver provision is included to allow 
assistance if it is in the national interest of the United 
States.
    Sec. 580, ``Basic Education for Pakistan'' is modified to 
delete a reference to chapter 1 of part 1 of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 and to delete a reference to 
notification requirements.
    Sec. 581, ``Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Trust Fund 
Authorization'' is a new provision that amends section 
801(b)(1) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and 
Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2001, to increase the 
authorization level of the aforementioned trust fund from 
$435,000,000 to $600,000,000, consistent with the funding 
recommendation in title II of this Act.
    Sec. 582, ``Funding for Serbia'' is similar to section 594 
of the fiscal year 2001 appropriations act, except that it does 
not specify a funding ceiling for assistance for Serbia and 
does not contain subsection (e), which dealt with transition 
issues related to state liabilities, assets, and property.
    Sec. 583, ``Improving Global Health Through Safe 
Injections'' is a new general provision that directs the Agency 
for International Development to develop and implement 
effective strategies to improve injection safety in its health 
programs, and to report to the Congress not later than March 
31, 2002, on its efforts in this regard.
    Sec. 584, ``El Salvador Reconstruction'' is a new general 
provision that provides that not less than $100,000,000 shall 
be made available during fiscal year 2002 for rehabilitation 
and reconstruction assistance for El Salvador, of which not 
less than $65,000,000 shall be derived from funds appropriated 
in this Act and not less than $35,000,000 shall be derived from 
funds appropriated for fiscal year 1999 and prior years, from 
certain specified accounts.

               provisions retained from fiscal year 2001

    The following general provisions from the fiscal year 2002 
Act are retained in the fiscal year 2001 Act unchanged except 
for technical corrections, references to fiscal year 2002, and 
new section numbers where appropriate:
    Sec. 501. Obligations During Last Month of Availability.
    Sec. 503. Limitation on Residence Expenses.
    Sec. 504. Limitation on Expenses.
    Sec. 506. Prohibition on Financing Nuclear Goods.
    Sec. 507. Prohibition Against Direct Funding of Certain 
Countries.
    Sec. 509. Transfers Between Accounts.
    Sec. 510. Deobligation/Reobligation Authority
    Sec. 513. Commerce and Trade.
    Sec. 514. Surplus Commodities.
    Sec. 516. Limitation on Availability of Funds for 
International Organizations and Programs.
    Sec. 517. Independent States of the Former Soviet Union
    Sec. 518. Prohibition on Funding for Abortions and 
Involuntary Sterilization.
    Sec. 519. Export Financing Transfer Authorities.
    Sec. 521. Definition of Program, Project, and Activity.
    Sec. 522. Child Survival and Disease Prevention Activities.
    Sec. 527. Prohibition on Bilateral Assistance to Terrorist 
Countries.
    Sec. 528. Debt-for-Development.
    Sec. 529. Separate Accounts.
    Sec. 530. Compensation for U.S. Executive Directors to 
International Financial Institutions.
    Sec. 531. Compliance with United Nations Sanctions against 
Iraq.
    Sec. 535. Policy on Terminating the Arab League Boycott of 
Israel and Normalizing Relations with Israel.
    Sec. 536. Administration of Justice Activities.
    Sec. 539. Ceilings and Earmarks.
    Sec. 540. Prohibition on Publicity and Propaganda.
    Sec. 542. Prohibition of Payments to United Nations 
Members.
    Sec. 545. Withholding of Assistance for Parking Fines Owed 
by Foreign Countries.
    Sec. 546. Limitation on Assistance for the PLO for the West 
Bank and Gaza.
    Sec. 548. Landmines.
    Sec. 549. Restrictions Concerning the Palestinian 
Authority.
    Sec. 550. Prohibition of Payment of Certain Expenses.
    Sec. 551. Special Debt Relief for the Poorest.
    Sec. 552. Authority to Engage in Debt Buybacks or Sales.
    Sec. 553. Restrictions on Voluntary Contributions to United 
Nations Agencies.
    Sec. 554. Haiti Coast Guard.
    Sec. 555. Limitation on Assistance to the Palestinian 
Authority.
    Sec. 556. Limitation on Assistance to Security Forces.
    Sec. 557. Discrimination Against Minority Religious Faiths 
in the Russian Federation.
    Sec. 559. Enterprise Fund Restrictions.
    Sec. 561. Foreign Military Financing Report.
    Sec. 564. Prohibition on Assistance to the Palestinian 
Broadcasting Corporation.
    Sec. 566. Kyoto Protocol.
    Sec. 567. West Bank and Gaza Program.
    Sec. 570. Taiwan Reporting Requirement.
    Sec. 571. Restrictions on Assistance to Governments 
Destabilizing Sierra Leone.
    Sec. 573. Contributions to United Nations Population Fund.
    Sec. 574. American Churchwomen in El Salvador.
    Sec. 575. Procurement and Financial Management Reform.
    Sec. 576. Commercial Leasing of Defense Articles.
    Sec. 579. User Fees.

              House of Representatives Report Requirements


                           Transfer of Funds

    Pursuant to clause 3(f)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives, the following is submitted describing 
the transfer of funds provided in the accompanying bill. Under 
``Development credit authority'' up to $7,500,000 is authorized 
to be transferred to the account from a variety of sources.

                              Rescissions

    Clause 3(f)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives requires a separate listing of rescissions. 
There are no rescissions recommended in the accompanying bill.

                        Constitutional Authority

    Clause 3(d)(1) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives states that:

        Each report of a committee on a bill or joint 
        resolution of a public character, shall include a 
        statement citing the specific powers granted to the 
        Congress in the Constitution to enact the law proposed 
        by the bill or joint resolution.

    The Committee on Appropriations bases its authority to 
report this legislation from Clause 7 of Section 9 of Article I 
of the Constitution of the United States of America which 
states:

        No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in 
        consequence of Appropriations made by law * * *

    Appropriations contained in this Act are made pursuant to 
this specific power granted by the Constitution.

               Changes in the Application of Existing Law

    Pursuant to clause 3(f), rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives, the following statements are 
submitted describing the effects of provisions in the 
accompanying bill which directly or indirectly change the 
application of existing law. Most of the language has been 
provided in previous measures including supplementals for the 
departments and agencies carried in the accompanying bill.
    1. The bill contains appropriations for a number of items 
for which authorizations for fiscal year 2002 have not yet been 
enacted. The bill allows funds appropriated in the bill to be 
obligated in the absence of a prior authorization of 
appropriations.
    2. The bill provides that a few of the appropriations shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year. 
In all cases it is deemed desirable to carry such language in 
order to provide for orderly administration of such programs 
and effective use of funds.
    3. The bill contains a number of general provisions and 
other language that have been carried in the bill in past 
years.
    4. Under ``Export-Import Bank of the United States'', funds 
are prohibited for the export of nuclear equipment, fuel, or 
technology to any country other than a nuclear-weapon state as 
defined in Article IX of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of 
Nuclear Weapons eligible to receive economic or military 
assistance that has detonated a nuclear explosive after the 
date of enactment.
    5. Under ``Overseas Private Investment Corporation'', the 
Corporation is authorized to make expenditures, and it is 
stated that administrative expenses shall not include project-
specific costs and other related costs. In addition, funds are 
authorized to be derived by transfer from the noncredit 
account. Finally, funds are authorized for administrative 
expenses by transfer from the noncredit account.
    6. Under ``Child Survival and Health Programs Fund'' the 
bill contains provisions relating to abortion and family 
planning that were carried in the fiscal year 2001 Act under 
``Development Assistance''; other authorities for the use of 
the fund were contained in the fiscal year 2001 Act and are 
consistent with the Foreign Assistance Act; in addition, funds 
may be made available for nonproject assistance only for 
ongoing health programs; in addition, language is provided that 
indicates how the funds should be allocated among various 
activities, and up to $60,000,000 is authorized to be made 
available for a contribution to The Vaccine Fund.
    7. Under ``Development Assistance'', no funds may be made 
available for any activity which is in contravention to the 
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of 
Flora and Fauna (CITES); in addition, not to exceed $25,000, in 
addition to funds otherwise available for such purposes, may be 
used to monitor and provide oversight of programs for displaced 
and orphaned children and victims of war; and a reference to 
section 131 of the Foreign Assistance Act is inserted.
    8. Under ``International Disaster Assistance'', funds are 
made available for relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction 
assistance.
    9. Under ``Transition Initiatives'' authority is provided 
to develop, strengthen, or preserve democratic institutions and 
processes, revitalize basic infrastructure, and foster the 
peaceful resolution of conflict; in addition, the account 
requires a report at least 5 days prior to beginning a program 
of assistance.
    10. Under ``Development Credit Authority'', authority is 
provided to guarantee up to 70 percent of the principal amount 
of any loans notwithstanding existing law; in addition, a 
separate account ``Micro and Small Enterprise Development 
Program Account'' is deleted.
    11. Under ``Economic Support Fund'', funds are available as 
cash grants to Israel and Egypt. Funds for Israel are made 
available within 30 days of enactment or by October 31, 2001, 
whichever is later. In addition, the cash grant to Egypt is 
provided with the understanding that significant economic 
reforms will be undertaken, and the cash grant to Israel is 
provided with direction to the President that he ensure that 
the level of assistance does not cause an adverse impact on the 
level of non-military exports from the United States to such 
country and that Israel enter into a side letter agreement 
equivalent to 1999.
    12. Under ``Debt Restructuring'', funds are authorized for 
purposes consistent with existing law, except that funds 
appropriated for concessional debt relief are authorized for 
``IDA-only'' countries; in addition, funds may be paid to the 
``Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Trust Fund'' for the U.S. 
share of repayment of debt owed by Bolivia and Mozambique; in 
addition, any international financial institution in receipt of 
such U.S. contributions is required to notify the Secretary of 
the Treasury that no new loans or credits will be extended to 
such member country for a period of up to 24 months; in 
addition, the Secretary of the Treasury is required to provide 
to the Committees on Appropriations full documentation relating 
to commitments by such countries to redirect resources to 
poverty alleviation or economic growth programs; and in 
addition, any limitation of subsection (e) of section 411 of 
the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 
shall not apply to funds appropriated under this heading.
    13. In title II, funds are appropriated for the 
administrative costs of the Development Credit Authority, and 
such funds may be transferred to the operating expenses account 
of the Agency for International Development.
    14. Under ``Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic 
States'', funds are made subject to section 529 of this Act.
    15. Under ``International Fund for Ireland'', $25,000,000 
is provided, which shall be expended at the minimum rate 
necessary to make timely payment for projects and activities.
    16. Under ``Assistance to Eastern Europe and the Baltic 
States'', funds are provided notwithstanding any other 
provision of law for economic assistance; funds are made 
available as if they were considered economic assistance under 
the Foreign Assistance Act; funds for Bosnia are subject to 
certain conditions. Funds available for an Enterprise Fund are 
authorized to be deposited in interest-bearing accounts, and 
shall be expended at the minimum rate necessary to make timely 
payments for projects and activities; in addition, assistance 
for Kosovo is proposed to be limited to 15% of the total 
pledges made by all donors as of March 31, 2002; in addition, 
notwithstanding certain provisions of law, local currencies 
generated by, or converted from, funds appropriated by this Act 
and by previous appropriations Acts for Bosnia may be made 
available for purposes of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
and the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989.
    17. Under ``Assistance for the Independent States of the 
Former Soviet Union'', the Committee has included a limitation 
on the amount of assistance that may be made available for any 
one country in the region; it has also retained language 
concerning cooperation between Russia and Iran; in addition, 
exceptions are made to the application of section 907 of the 
FREEDOM Support Act; funds for the Government of Russia are 
subject to certain limitations; and certain authorities are 
granted for the use of funds appropriated for Enterprise Funds 
that were carried in the fiscal year 2001 Act; in addition, no 
funds are available for the Government of the Russian 
Federation if the Secretary of State cannot certify that they 
are in compliance with certain specified conditions.
    18. Under ``International Narcotics Control and Law 
Enforcement'', anti-crime programs are subject to notification; 
in addition, a new account is created using the authorities of 
section 481 of the Foreign Assistance Act entitled ``Andean 
Counterdrug Initiative'', for which funds are appropriated 
solely to support counterdrug activities in the Andean region 
of South America and which are available notwithstanding 
section 3204(b)(1)(B) of Public Law 106-246 and notwithstanding 
section 482(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; in 
addition, in both accounts limitations of $16,600,000 and 
$14,240,000, respectively, are placed on administrative 
expenses.
    19. Funding is provided for ``Migration and Refugee 
Assistance'', and a limitation of $15,000,000 is provided for 
administrative expenses, and a contribution to the headquarters 
expenses of the International Committee of the Red Cross is 
made contingent on Magen David Adom of Israel being given the 
opportunity to participate in the activities of the 
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
    20. Under ``United States Emergency Refugee and Migration 
Assistance Fund'', funds are provided notwithstanding the 
limitations contained in section 2(c)(2) of the Migration and 
Refugee Assistance Act of 1962.
    21. Under ``Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining, and 
Related Programs'', funds are made available to countries other 
than the Independent States of the former Soviet Union and 
international organizations when it is in the national security 
interest of the United States; funds are made available 
notwithstanding any other provision of law; and the use of 
funds is made subject to consultations with the Committees on 
Appropriations; funds are authorized to be made available for 
the IAEA, KEDO, and the CTBT Preparatory Commission, and funds 
are authorized for IAEA only to the extent Israel is not being 
denied its right to participate in the activities of that 
Agency.
    22. Under ``Debt Restructuring'', funds are available for 
the cost of selling, reducing, or canceling debt owed to the 
United States, for modifying concessional debt agreements with 
least developed countries.
    23. Under ``International Military Education and 
Training'', the IMET for Indonesia and Guatemala shall be only 
for expanded military education and training and funds for 
Indonesia and Guatemala are subject to notification.
    24. Under ``Foreign Military Financing Program'', the 
Committee has provided that not less than $535,000,000 in FMF 
grants should be available for the procurement in Israel of 
defense articles and defense services.
    25. Under ``Foreign Military Financing Program'', funds 
estimated to be outlayed for Egypt in fiscal year 2002, and 
funds appropriated for Israel, shall be disbursed within 30 
days of enactment or by October 31, 2001, whichever is later; 
in addition, funds are nonrepayable notwithstanding section 23 
of the Arms Export Control Act; in addition, certain 
authorities that were contained in the fiscal year 2001 Act are 
continued in this Act.
    26. Under ``Peacekeeping Operations'', funds are made 
available subject to the regular notification procedures of the 
Committees on Appropriations.
    27. Under title IV, funds for a number of international 
financial institutions are made available for contributions; 
funds are made available for the United States share of the 
paid-in portion of the increase in capital stock of certain 
institutions; and limitations are placed on callable capital 
subscriptions.
    28. Under ``Contribution to the European Bank for 
Reconstruction and Development'', the Committee has provided 
$35,778,717 for the purchase of stock during fiscal year 2001 
and placed a limit on callable capital.
    29. Under ``Contribution to the International Development 
Association'', the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to 
seek an agreement that future assistance to member countries 
participating in debt reduction through HIPC shall, to the 
extent allowed by IOA policy and resources, be on a grant 
basis.
    30. Under ``International Organizations and Programs'', the 
Committee has prohibited and conditioned the funding of certain 
organizations and programs.
    31. Under ``General Provisions'':
    Sec. 502, ``Private and Voluntary Organizations'' is a new 
general provision that repeats language previously carried 
under that heading in title II; the language prohibits funds 
for any United States private and voluntary organization, 
except any cooperative development organization, which obtains 
less than 20 percent of its total annual funding for 
international activities from sources other than the United 
States government, but allows the Administrator of AID to waive 
this prohibition on a case-by-case basis after taking into 
account various factors; it also specifies that funds 
appropriated under title II should be made available to private 
and voluntary organizations at a level at least equivalent to 
the fiscal year 1995 level.
    Sec. 505, ``Limitation on Representational Allowances'' is 
modified by limiting representation expenses associated with 
funds made available under ``Foreign Military Financing 
Program'' to $150,000.
    Sec. 508, ``Military Coups'' is modified to specify that 
resumption of assistance to a country that was previously 
suspended as the result of an elected head of government being 
deposed by decree or military coup may occur if the President 
determines that a democratically elected government has taken 
office or substantial progress has been made towards the 
holding of elections.
    Sec. 511, ``Availability of Funds'' is modified to add 
funds appropriated to carry out section 23 of the Arms Export 
Control Act to the list of funds that may remain available 
until for an extended period of time if obligated before the 
expiration of their periods of availability, and to limit the 
extended availability of funds obligated prior to the 
expiration of their availability to four years.
    Sec. 512, ``Limitation on Assistance to Countries in 
Default'', is modified to allow for a waiver of the provisions 
of this section if the President determines, following 
consultations with the Committees on Appropriations, that 
assistance to a country otherwise prohibited from receiving 
funds is in the national interest of the United States.
    Sec. 515, ``Notification Requirements'' is modified by 
changing the name of the account ``Child Survival and Disease 
Programs Fund'' to ``Child Survival and Health Programs Fund'' 
consistent with the modification to the name of the account 
made in title II.
    Sec. 524, ``Notification on Excess Defense Equipment'' is 
modified to limit the notifications of excess defense articles 
to those that are significant military equipment or had an 
original acquisition cost of $7,000,000 or more, of if the 
recipient country is subject to notification elsewhere in this 
Act.
    Sec. 525, ``Authorization Requirement'' is modified to add 
the Trade and Development Agency and the Peace Corps to the 
list of accounts that are exempted from the waiver of the 
authorization requirement.
    Sec. 526, ``Democracy Programs'' is modified to allow up to 
$3,000,000, rather than $2,000,000, for support of 
nongovernmental organizations located outside China to support 
activities which preserve cultural traditions and promote 
sustainable development and environmental conservation in 
Tibetan communities in that country.
    Sec. 534, ``Special Authorities'' is modified to carry 
language that had been carried in another provision to provide 
that section 576 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, 
and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1997, as amended, 
shall not apply to the provision of assistance from 
international financial institutions to the Federal Republic of 
Yugoslavia (the same language was carried in section 594 of the 
fiscal year 2001 appropriations act); it is also modified to 
provide that during fiscal year 2002, the President may use up 
to $50,000,000 under the authority of section 451 of the 
Foreign Assistance Act, notwithstanding the funding ceiling in 
section 451(a).
    Sec. 537, ``Eligibility for Assistance'' is modified to 
prohibit the provisions of the section from applying to 
assistance to the government of a country that violates section 
116 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
    Sec. 543, ``Nongovernmental Organizations--Documentation'' 
is modified by changing the title and language in the provision 
from ``private voluntary'' to ``nongovernmental''.
    Sec. 544, ``Prohibition on Assistance to Foreign 
Governments that Export Lethal Military Equipment to Countries 
Supporting International Terrorism'' is modified by updating a 
reference to section 6(j) of the Export Administration Act.
    Sec. 560, ``Cambodia'' is modified to exempt assistance for 
basic education from the funding limitation of the section.
    Sec. 562, ``Korean Peninsula Energy Development 
Organization'' is modified by limiting funds for KEDO to 
$95,000,000 and providing for certain certification and 
reporting requirements.
    Sec. 563, ``PLO Compliance Report'' is a new section.
    Sec. 565, ``Iraq'' is modified by authorizing assistance 
under the ``Economic Support Fund'' for programs benefiting the 
Iraqi people and to support efforts to bring about political 
transition in Iraq.
    Sec. 568, ``Indonesia'' is modified to refer to Indonesian 
Ministry of Defense or military personnel for the purposes of 
applying this section to the possible provision of assistance 
for Indonesia.
    Sec. 572, ``Voluntary Separation Incentives'' amends 
existing law to provide authority for an additional year for 
the Agency for International Development to extend voluntary 
separation incentives to certain employees.
    Sec. 577, ``Abolition of the Inter-American Foundation'' is 
modified to extend the authorities of this section for an 
additional year.
    Sec. 578, ``War Criminals'' is modified to provide that 
none of the funds appropriated pursuant to this Act may be made 
available, with the exception of humanitarian assistance and 
assistance for democratization, to any country, entity, or 
municipality whose competent authorities have failed to take 
necessary and significant steps to apprehend and transfer to 
the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia 
all persons publicly indicted by the Tribunal unless such 
authorities are (1) cooperating with the Tribunal in specified 
ways and (2) taking steps that are consistent with the Dayton 
Accords; in addition, a waiver provision is included to allow 
assistance if it is in the national interest of the United 
States.
    Sec. 581, ``Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Trust Fund 
Authorization'' is a new provision that amends section 
801(b)(1) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and 
Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2001, to increase the 
authorization level of the aforementioned trust fund from 
$435,000,000 to $600,000,000, consistent with the funding 
recommendation in title II of this Act.
    Sec. 582, ``Funding for Serbia'' is similar to section 594 
of the fiscal year 2001 appropriations act, except that it does 
not specify a funding ceiling for assistance for Serbia and 
does not contain subsection (e), which dealt with transition 
issues related to state liabilities, assets, and property.
    Sec. 583, ``Improving Global Health Through Safe 
Injections'' is a new general provision that directs the Agency 
for International Development to develop and implement 
effective strategies to improve injection safety in its health 
programs, and to report to the Congress not later than March 
31, 2002, on its efforts in this regard.
    Sec. 584, ``El Salvador Reconstruction'' is a new general 
provision that provides that not less than $100,000,000 shall 
be made available during fiscal year 2002 for rehabilitation 
and reconstruction assistance for El Salvador, of which not 
less than $65,000,000 shall be derived from funds appropriated 
in this Act and not less than $35,000,000 shall be derived from 
funds appropriated for fiscal year 1999 and prior years, from 
certain specified accounts.

                  Appropriations Not Authorized by Law

    Pursuant to clause 3(f)(1) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives, the following table lists the 
appropriations in the accompanying bill which, in whole or in 
part, are not authorized by law:

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                                                                           Appropriations in
                                       Last year         Authorization       last year of      Appropriations in
                                      authorized             level           authorization         this bill
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Export-Import Bank..............  2001..............  Such sums as may    $865,000,000......  $753,323,000
                                                       be necessary.
Export-Import Bank                2001..............  Such sums as may    $62,000,000.......  $63,000,000
 administrative expenses.                              be necessary.
Child Survival and Health         Population (1987);  Population          Population          $1,387,000,000
 Programs Fund (See note below).   Health and          ($290,000,000);     ($234,625,000);     (includes
                                   Disease             Health and          Health and          $425,000,000 for
                                   Prevention          Disease             Disease             population, of
                                   (1987); Child       Prevention          Prevention          which
                                   Survival Fund       ($180,000,000);     ($166,762,500);     $358,000,000 in
                                   (1987); HIV/AIDS    Child Survival      Child Survival      this account;
                                   (2002).             Fund                Fund                funding for other
                                                       ($75,000,000);      ($75,000,000);      programs, other
                                                       HIV/AIDS            HIV/AIDS            than HIV/AIDS,
                                                       ($300,000,000).     ($474,000,000 in    difficult to
                                                                           fy2002              determine due to
                                                                           recommendation,     changing
                                                                           of which            definitions of
                                                                           $434,000,000 in     programs since
                                                                           this account).      last authorized)
Development Assistance (See note  Agriculture         Agriculture         Agriculture         $1,098,000,000
 below).                           (1987); Education   ($760,000,000);     ($639,613,000);     (includes
                                   (1987); Energy      Education           Education           $150,000,000 for
                                   and selected        ($180,000,000);     ($155,000,000);     basic education,
                                   development         Energy and          Energy and          of which
                                   activities (1987).  selected            selected            $135,000,000 in
                                                       development         development         this account;
                                                       activities          activities          other programs
                                                       ($207,000,000).     ($149,990,000).     difficult to
                                                                                               determine due to
                                                                                               changing
                                                                                               definitions of
                                                                                               programs since
                                                                                               last authorized)
International Disaster            1987..............  $25,000,000.......  $70,000,000.......  $200,000,000
 Assistance.
Transition initiatives..........  None (same          ..................  ..................  $40,000,000
                                   authorities as
                                   international
                                   disaster
                                   assistance).
Development credit authority....  None..............  ..................  ..................  ($12,500,000)
Development credit authority      None..............  ..................  ..................  $7,500,000
 administrative expenses.
Payment to the Foreign Service    None; mandatory     ..................  ..................  $44,880,000
 Retirement and Disability Fund.   item.
Operating expenses of the United  1987..............  $387,000,000......  $340,600,000......  $549,000,000
 States Agency for International
 Development.
Operating Expenses of the United  1987..............  $21,750,000.......  $21,000,000.......  $30,000,000
 States Agency for International
 Development Inspector General.
Economic Support Fund...........  1987..............  $3,800,000,000....  $3,555,000,000....  $2,199,000,000
International Fund for Ireland..  1988..............  $35,000,000.......  $35,000,000.......  $25,000,000
Assistance for Eastern Europe     None..............  ..................  ..................  $600,000,000
 and the Baltic States (See note
 below).
Assistance for the Independent    1993..............  $410,000,000......  $417,000,000......  $768,000,000
 States of the Former Soviet
 Union.
Inter-American Foundation.......  1987..............  $11,969,000.......  $11,800,000.......  $12,000,000
African Development Foundation..  1987..............  $3,872,000........  $6,500,000........  $16,042,000
International Narcotics Control   1994..............  $171,500,000......  $100,000,000......  $217,000,000
 and Law Enforcement.
Andean Counterdrug Initiative...  None..............  ..................  ..................  $676,000,000
Migration and Refugee Assistance  2001..............  $750,000,000......  $700,000,000......  $715,000,000
U.S. Emergency Refugee and        1962..............  Such amounts as     N/A...............  $15,000,000
 Migration Assistance Fund (See                        may be necessary.
 note below).
Nonproliferation, Anti-           None..............  ..................  ..................  $311,000,000
 terrorism, demining and related
 programs (See note below).
International Affairs Technical   1999..............  $5,000,000........  $1,500,000........  $6,000,000
 Assistance.
Debt restructuring..............  2001..............  $435,000,000......  $448,000,000        $224,000,000
                                                                           (included up to     (Note: section
                                                                           $435,000,000 for    581 includes
                                                                           Heavily Indebted    additional
                                                                           Poor Countries      authorization for
                                                                           (HIPC) debt         HIPC debt relief,
                                                                           relief;             consistent with
                                                                           additional sums     appropriations
                                                                           for unauthorized    recommendation
                                                                           bilateral debt      for this account)
                                                                           relief).
Peacekeeping operations.........  1999..............  $83,000,000.......  $76,500,000.......  $135,000,000
Asian Development Fund..........  2001..............  $400,000,000 over   $72,000,000.......  $103,017,000
                                                       four years
                                                       (beginning in
                                                       fy1998).
International Organizations and   2001..............  Such sums as may    $186,000,000......  $196,000,000
 Programs.                                             be necessary.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note. Programs recommended herein under ``Child Survival and Health Programs Fund'' and ``Development
  Assistance'' were last authorized under a different account structure than that recommended in this bill; the
  account structure included a number of functional accounts, as described above.
Note. Programs recommended herein under ``Support for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States'' were last
  authorized in the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989; however, these funds were authorized
  for discrete programs and not for the account as a whole. In fiscal year 1991, the first general
  appropriations act after enactment of the SEED Act included $369,675,000 for this account.
Note. Funds for the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Program (ERMA) are authorized in
  such amounts as may be necessary; however, appropriations which would result in a balance in the fund of more
  than $100,000,000 are prohibited (22 U.S.C. 2601(c)) absent a waiver of this provision of law.
Note. Programs recommended herein under ``Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining, and Related Programs''
  include some major programs for which authorizations of appropriations were provided for fiscal year 2002;
  these programs include $73,000,000 authorized for anti-terrorism assistance and $142,000,000 authorized for
  nonproliferation activities. In addition, some programs now in this account were previously in accounts which
  had authorizations of appropriations in prior years.

                   Comparison With Budget Resolution

    Clause 3(c)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives requires an explanation of compliance with 
section 308(a)(1)(A) of the Congressional Budget and 
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-344), as 
amended, which requires that the report accompanying a bill 
providing new budget authority contain a statement detailing 
how the authority compares with the reports submitted under 
section 302 of the Act for the most recently agreed to 
concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year from 
the Committee's section 302(a) allocation.

                                            [In millions of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                 302(b) allocation--           This bill--
                                                             ---------------------------------------------------
                                                                 Budget                    Budget
                                                               authority     Outlays     authority     Outlays
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Discretionary...............................................       15,168       15,099       15,167       15,089
Mandatory...................................................           45           45           45          45
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NOTE.--The outlays in this bill are technically in excess of the subcommittee section 302(b) suballocation.
  However, prior to floor consideration, the Committee intends to file a revised 302(b) suballocation that will
  eliminate the excess.

                      Five-Year Outlay Projections

    In compliance with section 308(a)(1)(B) of the 
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 
(Public Law 93-344), as amended, the following table contains 
five-year projections associated with the budget authority 
provided in the accompanying bill:




Fiscal year 2002......................................             5,563
Fiscal year 2003......................................             4,838
Fiscal year 2004......................................             2,481
Fiscal year 2005......................................               980
Fiscal year 2006......................................             1,137


         Statement of General Performance Goals and Objectives

    Pursuant to clause 3(c)(4) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives, the following is a statement of 
general performance goals and objectives for which this measure 
authorizes funding:
    The Committee on Appropriations considers program 
performance, including a program's success in developing and 
attaining outcome-related goals and objectives, in developing 
funding recommendations.

               Assistance to State and Local Governments

    In accordance with section 308(a)(1)(C) of the 
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 
(Public Law 93-344), as amended, the financing assistance to 
State and local governments is as follows:
    The amounts recommended in the accompanying bill contain no 
budget authority or budget outlays for State or local 
governments.

          Compliance With Rule XIII, Cl. 3(e) (Ramseyer Rule)

    In compliance with clause 3(e) of rule XIII of the Rules of 
the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by 
the bill, as reported, are shown as follows (existing law 
proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new 
matter is printed in italic, existing law in which no change is 
proposed is shown in roman):

      FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING, AND RELATED PROGRAMS 
                       APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1996

           *       *       *       *       *       *       *



               TITLE IV--MULTILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE

           *       *       *       *       *       *       *



                international organizations and programs

  For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 
301 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and of section 2 of 
the United Nations Environment Program Participation Act of 
1973, $285,000,000: Provided, That none of the funds 
appropriated under this heading shall be made available for the 
United Nations Fund for Science and Technology: Provided 
further, That funds appropriated under this heading may be made 
available for the International Atomic Energy Agency only if 
the Secretary of State determines (and so reports to the 
Congress) that Israel is not being denied its right to 
participate in the activities of that Agency: Provided further, 
That none of the funds appropriated under this heading that are 
made available to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 
shall be made available for activities in the People's Republic 
of China: Provided further, That not more than $30,000,000 of 
the funds appropriated under this heading may be made available 
to the UNFPA: Provided further, That not more than one-half of 
this amount may be provided to UNFPA before March 1, 1996, and 
that no later than February 15, 1996, the Secretary of State 
shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations 
indicating the amount UNFPA is budgeting for the People's 
Republic of China in 1996: Provided further, That any amount 
UNFPA plans to spend in the People's Republic of China in 1996 
above $7,000,000, shall be deducted from the amount of funds 
provided to UNFPA after March 1, 1996 pursuant to the previous 
provisos: Provided further, That with respect to any funds 
appropriated under this heading that are made available to 
UNFPA, UNFPA shall be required to maintain such funds in a 
separate account and not commingle them with any other funds: 
Provided further, That funds may be made available to the 
Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) for 
administrative expenses and heavy fuel oil costs associated 
with the Agreed Framework: Provided further, That no funds may 
be provided for KEDO for funding for administrative expenses 
and heavy fuel oil costs beyond the total amount included for 
KEDO in the fiscal year 1996 congressional presentation: 
Provided further, That no funds may be made available under 
this Act to KEDO unless the President determines and certifies 
in writing to the Committees on Appropriations that (a) in 
accordance with section 1 of the Agreed Framework, KEDO has 
designated a Republic of Korea company, corporation or entity 
for the purpose of negotiating a prime contract to carry out 
construction of the light water reactors provided for in the 
Agreed Framework; and (b) the Democratic People's Republic of 
Korea is maintaining the freeze on its nuclear facilities as 
required in the Agreed Framework; and (c) the United States is 
taking steps to assure that progress is made on (1) the North-
South dialogue, including efforts to reduce barriers to trade 
and investment, such as removing restrictions on travel, 
telecommunications services and financial transactions; and (2) 
implementation of the January 1, 1992, Joint Declaration on the 
Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula[: Provided further, 
That a report on the specific efforts with regard to 
subsections (a), (b) and (c) of the preceding proviso shall be 
submitted by the President to the Committees on Appropriations 
six months after the date of enactment of this Act, and every 
six months thereafter].

           *       *       *       *       *       *       *

                              ----------                              


      FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING, AND RELATED PROGRAMS 
                     APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2000

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                   TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS

           *       *       *       *       *       *       *



  Voluntary Separation Incentives for Employees of the United States 
                  Agency for International Development

  Sec. 579. (a) * * *

           *       *       *       *       *       *       *

  (c) Authority To Provide Voluntary Separation Incentive 
Payments.--
          (1) * * *
          (2) Amount and treatment of payments.--A voluntary 
        separation incentive payment under this section--
                  (A) * * *

           *       *       *       *       *       *       *

                  (D) may not be made except in the case of any 
                employee who voluntarily separates (whether by 
                retirement or resignation) on or before 
                December 31, [2001] 2002;

           *       *       *       *       *       *       *


               abolition of the Inter-American Foundation

  Sec. 586. (a) * * *
  (b) Abolition of Inter-American Foundation.--During fiscal 
[years 2000 and 2001] years 2000, 2001, and 2002, the President 
is authorized to abolish the Inter-American Foundation. The 
provisions of this section shall only be effective upon the 
effective date of the abolition of the Inter-American 
Foundation.

           *       *       *       *       *       *       *

                              ----------                              


 SECTION 801 OF THE FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING, AND RELATED 
                   PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2001


SEC. 801. DEBT RELIEF UNDER THE HEAVILY INDEBTED POOR COUNTRIES (HIPC) 
                    INITIATIVE.

  (a) * * *
  (b) Contributions to HIPC Trust Fund.--
          (1) Authorization of appropriations for 
        contributions.--There is authorized to be appropriated 
        for the period beginning October 1, 2000, and ending 
        September 30, 2003, [$435,000,000] $600,000,000 for 
        purposes of United States contributions to the Heavily 
        Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Trust Fund administered 
        by the Bank.

           *       *       *       *       *       *       *

                          Full Committee Votes

    Pursuant to the provisions of clause 3(b) of rule XIII of 
the House of Representatives, the results of each rollcall vote 
on an amendment or on the motion to report, together with the 
names of those voting for and those voting against, are printed 
below:

                             Rollcall No. 1

    Date: July 10, 2001.
    Measure: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
Programs Appropriations Bill, FY 2002.
    Motion By: Ms. Pelosi.
    Description of Motion: To reduce the amounts provided for 
the Andean Counterdrug Initiative by $100,000,000 and to limit 
military aid to Colombia to a level of $65,000,000; and to 
increase the amounts provided to the Child Survival and Disease 
Programs Account by $100,000,000 of which $70,000,000 is for 
other infectious diseases and $30,000,000 is for child survival 
and maternal health.
    Results: Rejected 22 yeas to 39 nays.


         Members Voting Yea                   Members Voting Nay

Mr. Clyburn                          Mr. Aderholt
Ms. DeLauro                          Mr. Bonilla
Mr. Edwards                          Mr. Boyd
Mr. Fattah                           Mr. Callahan
Mr. Hinchey                          Mr. Cramer
Mr. Hoyer                            Mr. Cunningham
Mr. Jackson                          Mr. DeLay
Ms. Kaptur                           Mr. Doolittle
Mr. Kilpatrick                       Mr. Emerson
Mrs. Lowey                           Mr. Farr
Mrs. Meek                            Mr. Frelinghuysen
Mr. Moran                            Mr. Goode
Mr. Obey                             Ms. Granger
Mr. Olver                            Mr. Hobson
Mr. Pastor                           Mr. Istook
Ms. Pelosi                           Mr. Kennedy
Mr. Price                            Mr. Kingston
Ms. Roybal-Allard                    Mr. Knollenberg
Mr. Sabo                             Mr. Kolbe
Mr. Serrano                          Mr. LaHood
Mr. Visclosky                        Mr. Latham
Mr. Wicker                           Mr. Miller
                                     Mr. Nethercutt
                                     Mr. Northup
                                     Mr. Peterson
                                     Mr. Regula
                                     Mr. Rogers
                                     Mr. Rothman
                                     Mr. Sherwood
                                     Mr. Skeen
                                     Mr. Sununu
                                     Mr. Sweeney
                                     Mr. Taylor
                                     Mr. Tiahrt
                                     Mr. Vitter
                                     Mr. Walsh
                                     Mr. Wamp
                                     Mr. Wolf
                                     Mr. Young


                          Full Committee Votes

    Pursuant to the provisions of clause 3(b) of rule XIII of 
the House of Representatives, the results of each rollcall vote 
on an amendment or on the motion to report, together with the 
names of those voting for and those voting against, are printed 
below:

                             Rollcall No. 2

    Date: July 10, 2001.
    Measure: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
Programs Appropriations Bill, FY 2002.
    Motion By: Mr. Obey.
    Description of Motion: To strike all funds provided for the 
Andean Counterdrug Initiative and to provide $676,000,000 for 
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services at the Department of 
Health and Human Services.
    Results: Rejected 18 yeas to 43 nays.


         Members Voting Yea                   Members Voting Nay

Mr. Clyburn                          Mr. Aderholt
Mr. Fattah                           Mr. Bonilla
Mr. Hinchey                          Mr. Boyd
Mr. Hoyer                            Mr. Callahan
Mr. Jackson                          Mr. Cramer
Ms. Kaptur                           Mr. Cunningham
Mr. Kilpatrick                       Ms. DeLauro
Mrs. Lowey                           Ms. DeLay
Mrs. Meek                            Mr. Doolittle
Mr. Obey                             Mr. Edwards
Mr. Olver                            Mrs. Emerson
Mr. Pastor                           Mr. Farr
Ms. Pelosi                           Mr. Frelinghuyen
Ms. Roybal-Allard                    Mr. Goode
Mr. Sabo                             Ms. Granger
Mr. Serrano                          Mr. Hobson
Mr. Visclosky                        Mr. Istook
Mr. Wicker                           Mr. Kennedy
                                     Mr. Kingston
                                     Mr. Knollenberg
                                     Mr. Kolbe
                                     Mr. LaHood
                                     Mr. Latham
                                     Mr. Miller
                                     Mr. Moran
                                     Mr. Nethercutt
                                     Mrs. Northup
                                     Mr. Peterson
                                     Mr. Price
                                     Mr. Regula
                                     Mr. Rogers
                                     Mr. Rothman
                                     Mr. Sherwood
                                     Mr. Skeen
                                     Mr. Sununu
                                     Mr. Sweeney
                                     Mr. Taylor
                                     Mr. Tiahrt
                                     Mr. Vitter
                                     Mr. Walsh
                                     Mr. Wamp
                                     Mr. Wolf
                                     Mr. Young



                                     

                            ADDITIONAL VIEWS

    In the recent past the initial 302(b) allocation for the 
Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs 
appropriations bill has been significantly below the 
Administration's request. Fortunately that pattern was broken 
this year with an allocation at the request level. This enabled 
the Committee to produce a bipartisan bill which incorporates 
many of the initiatives important to subcommittee members from 
both parties, and which funds most programs at or above the 
Administration's request level. While funding for some programs 
is still below adequate levels, the bill as a whole does give 
us the ability to respond to and confront ongoing development 
and security challenges around the world. In particular, the 
bill has increased significantly the amounts for child 
survival, maternal health, HIV/AIDS, basic education and other 
infectious diseases.
    Of fundamental disagreement, however, are the policies 
imposed by the President on family planning programs. The bill 
provides $425,000,000 for family planning programs, which is at 
the request level, but 29% below the FY 1995 level of 
$541,600,000. The bill is silent regarding the Mexico City 
policy, which was imposed by executive order in January of 
2001. This policy violates universal standards of medical 
ethics, forcing doctors to withhold critical health information 
from their clients. It also requires overseas NGOs to forfeit 
their right to free speech as a condition of receiving United 
States family planning assistance. Similar requirements would 
be unconstitutional if applied to United States-based 
organizations, and it is disingenuous to promulgate them 
abroad. I am disappointed that language designed to repeal the 
Mexico City policy was not included in the bill.
    Another area of concern is the continued imbalance in the 
implementation of Plan Colombia. During the debate on the 
initial funding of Plan Colombia last year, members were 
assured that the ``push into southern Colombia'' would include 
economic and alternative development programs in conjunction 
with the military assistance and training and aerial 
fumigation. There were also assurances that the bulk of funding 
for ``Plan Colombia'' would come in the form of economic 
assistance and that our European allies would participate.
    Neither of these assurances has come to pass. A massive 
fumigation campaign commenced last December in southern 
Colombia before any alternative development programs were in 
place. By March, 2001, not one grain of rice, nor one seed, had 
been delivered to communities that had agreed to voluntary 
eradication. As of today, fully a year after funds were made 
available, only two of the 29 communities that have signed 
alternative development pacts have received any assistance. 
Meanwhile, military training and the provision of equipment 
have proceeded rapidly, and all three of the counter-narcotics 
battalions have been trained. The impact of our ``push into 
southern Colombia'' thus far has been further disruption and 
disillusionment of the population on the prospects for an end 
to the conflict. Aerial fumigation should cease until programs 
designed to give communities the opportunity to voluntarily 
eradicate coca are operating effectively.
    Unfortunately, the billions in additional economic 
assistance for Colombia have not materialized. Our European 
allies have chosen not to participate in a significant way in 
Plan Colombia. It is therefore time to slow the pace of the 
military assistance while a workable economic assistance plan 
is developed with the support of our allies and people in 
Colombia most affected by the drug war.
    With respect to the assistance to help El Salvador recover 
from two devastating earthquakes, the bill does include a 
designation of $100,000,000 from within existing and prior year 
resources for recovery. However, this is far from adequate 
given the fact that 175,000 homes were destroyed, leaving over 
one million people homeless, and that over one-third of the 
nation's schools were destroyed along with numerous hospitals, 
roads and other infrastructure.
    While the assistance designated in the bill is appreciated, 
the Administration has disappointed many by refusing to submit 
a request for additional resources to meet urgent needs. 
Unfortunately, many of our allies followed our miserly lead at 
the recent donor conference. The tragic result will be that El 
Salvador will need to incur significant debt to finance its 
recovery. This tragedy occurred just as the economy of that 
country was showing signs of permanent recovery from the civil 
war. Given the nature of our involvement in El Salvador's 
internal affairs, not to mention the investment of over $6 
billion in U.S. assistance, it is astonishing that the new 
administration has not been more forthcoming.

                                                     Nita M. Lowey.

                                  
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