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Memorandum on Transfer of Funds to the Korean Peninsula Energy 
Development Organization

September 28, 2000

Presidential Determination No. 2000-31

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Transfer of Economic Support Funds, Peacekeeping Operations 
Funds, and Foreign Military Financing Funds to the International 
Organizations and Programs Account and Use of Funds to Provide a U.S. 
Contribution of $29,407,000 to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development 
Organization (KEDO)

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 610(a) of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (the ``Act''), I hereby 
determine that it is necessary for the purposes of the Act that:
<bullet>    $2.466 million in funds made available pursuant to chapter 6 
            of part II of the Act for fiscal year 2000;
<bullet>    $2 million in funds made available pursuant to chapter 4 of 
            part II of the Act for prior fiscal years; and
<bullet>    $1.534 million in funds made available pursuant to section 
            23 of the Arms Export Control Act, as amended, for fiscal 
            year 2000,
be transferred to, and consolidated with, funds made available for 
chapter 3 of part I of the Act.
    In addition, pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 
614(a)(1) of the Act, I hereby determine that it is important to the 
security interests of the United States to furnish up to:
<bullet>    $20,307,000 in funds made available under the title II 
            (Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining, and Related 
            Programs) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and 
            Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000, as enacted in 
            Public Law 106-113; and
<bullet>    $9.1 million in funds made available pursuant to chapter 3 
            of part I of the Act for fiscal year 2000, comprised of $6 
            million in funds transferred pursuant to this determination 
            and $3.1 million in funds otherwise available pursuant to 
            chapter 3 of part I of the Act,
for assistance to KEDO without regard to any provision of law within the 
scope of section 614(a)(1) of the Act. I hereby authorize the furnishing 
of this assistance.
    You are hereby authorized and directed to transmit this 
determination to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the 
Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton