[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 9 (Monday, March 1, 2004)]
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Memorandum on Determination Consistent With the Emergency Supplemental 
Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq and 
Afghanistan, 2004 (Public Law 108-106), To Make Available Assistance for 
Liberia

February 25, 2004

 Presidential Determination No. 2004-23


 Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, 
the Secretary of Defense, the Administrator, United States Agency for 
International Development


Subject: Determination Consistent with the Emergency Supplemental 
Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq and 
Afghanistan, 2004 (Public Law 108-106), to Make Available Assistance for 
Liberia


    Consistent with the authority vested in me by the Emergency 
Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction 
of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004 (Public Law 108-106), under the heading 
``International Disaster and Famine Assistance,'' I hereby determine 
that it is in the national interest of the United States and essential 
to efforts to reduce international terrorism to furnish $114 million in 
assistance for Liberia from funds made available under that heading.

    The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to report this 
determination to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the 
Federal Register.

                                                George W. Bush

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., March 2, 
2004]

Note: This memorandum will be published in the Federal Register on March 
3.