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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · S. 2499 (Placed on Calendar Senate) — Making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs for the fiscal year endin... · Sec. 7060

Sec. 7060.

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Of the funds appropriated under title III of this Act, up to $534,291,000 may be made available for assistance for basic education, subject to the requirements of subparagraph (B). Funds appropriated under title III of this Act that are available for basic education assistance may only be made available if the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) certifies and reports to the Committees on Appropriations upon enactment of this Act that the amount of unobligated and unexpended funds for such assistance from prior acts making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs does not exceed $534,291,000: , That if the USAID Administrator is unable to make such certification, $334,291,000 of the funds made available under title III of this Act for basic education assistance shall be transferred to, and merged with, funds made available under the headings Provided International Disaster Assistance , Complex Crises Fund , and Migration and Refugee Assistance , and $200,000,000 of such funds shall be made available for programs other than basic education under the headings Development Assistance and Economic Support Fund , following consultation with the Committees on Appropriations.
Of the funds appropriated by title III of this Act, not less than $249,592,000 shall be made available for assistance for higher education, of which not less than $35,000,000 shall be to support such programs in Africa, including for partnerships between higher education institutions in Africa and the United States. Of the funds appropriated by title III of this Act and prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs that are made available for assistance for basic and higher education, not less than $15,000,000 shall be made available for such assistance for persons who are blind.
For purposes of funds appropriated under title III of this Act, the term democracy programs in section 7032(c)(1) of this Act shall also include programs to rescue scholars, and fellowships, scholarships, and exchanges in the Middle East and North Africa region for academic professionals and university students from countries in such region, subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. Funds appropriated by titles III, IV, and VIII of this Act may be made available for programs to reduce support for foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs), as designated pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, through messaging campaigns to damage their appeal; programs for potential supporters of violent extremism; counter radicalization and rehabilitation programs in prisons; job training and social reintegration for former supporters of FTOs; law enforcement training programs; and capacity building for civil society organizations to combat radicalization in local communities: , That for purposes of this subsection the term Provided countering violent extremism shall be defined as non-coercive interventions aimed directly at reducing public support for FTOs: , That not later than 180 days after enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the heads of other relevant United States Government agencies, shall submit a multi-year strategy to counter violent extremism, including a description of the objectives of such strategy, oversight mechanisms for programs to carry out such strategy, and multi-year cost estimates.
Provided further Of the funds appropriated by this Act, not less than $1,167,250,000 should be made available for environment programs. The limitation in section 7081(b) of division F of Public Law 111–117 shall continue in effect during fiscal year 2015 as if part of this Act: , That the proviso contained in such section shall not apply. Provided Funds appropriated by this Act may be made available for United States contributions to multilateral environmental funds and facilities to support adaptation and mitigation programs and activities.
Of the funds appropriated under title III of this Act, not less than $123,500,000 shall be made available for sustainable landscapes programs and, in addition, not less than $250,000,000 shall be made available to protect biodiversity, and shall not be used to support or promote the expansion of industrial scale logging or any other industrial scale extractive activity into areas that were primary/intact tropical forest as of December 30, 2013: , That of the funds made available for the Central African Regional Program for the Environment and other tropical forest programs in the Congo Basin, not less than $17,500,000 shall be apportioned directly to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS):
Provided That funds made available for the Department of the Interior
(DOI)for programs in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve shall be apportioned directly to the DOI: Provided further, That not less than $5,000,000 of such funds shall be made available to support other international conservation programs of the USFWS, not less than $5,000,000 shall be made available for such programs of the United States Forest Service, and such funds shall also be made available for programs to protect great apes and other endangered species. Provided further, Not less than $55,000,000 of the funds appropriated under titles III and IV of this Act shall be made available to combat the transnational threat of wildlife poaching and trafficking, including not less than $10,000,000 for programs to combat rhinoceros poaching in southern Africa. None of the funds appropriated under title IV of this Act may be made available for training or other assistance for any military unit or personnel that the Secretary of State determines has been credibly alleged to have participated in wildlife poaching or trafficking, unless the Secretary reports to the Committees on Appropriations that to do so is in the national security interests of the United States. Of the funds appropriated under title III of this Act, not less than $5,000,000 shall be made available for small grants to support initiatives to recycle waste. Of the funds appropriated under title III of this Act, not less than $5,000,000 shall be made available for small grants to support initiatives to identify areas severely affected by toxic chemical pollution and to eliminate the threats to health and the environment caused by such pollution. Funds appropriated by this Act to carry out the provisions of sections 103 through 106, and chapter 4 of part II, of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 may be used, notwithstanding any other provision of law except for the provisions of this subsection and subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations, to support environment programs. Funds appropriated by this Act shall be made available to promote and support transparency and accountability of expenditures and revenues related to the extraction of natural resources, including by strengthening implementation and monitoring of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, implementing and enforcing section 8204 of Public Law 110–246 and to prevent the sale of conflict diamonds, and provide technical assistance to promote independent audit mechanisms and support civil society participation in natural resource management. The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States executive director of each international financial institution to vote against any assistance by such institutions (including but not limited to any loan, credit, grant, or guarantee) for the extraction and export of a natural resource if the government of the country has in place laws, regulations, or procedures to prevent or limit the public disclosure of company payments as required by section 1504 of Public Law 111–203 , and unless such government has adopted laws, regulations, or procedures in the sector in which assistance is being considered for— accurately accounting for and public disclosure of payments to the host government by companies involved in the extraction and export of natural resources; the independent auditing of accounts receiving such payments and public disclosure of the findings of such audits; and public disclosure of such documents as Host Government Agreements, Concession Agreements, and bidding documents, allowing in any such dissemination or disclosure for the redaction of, or exceptions for, information that is commercially proprietary or that would create competitive disadvantage. The requirements of clause
(i)shall not apply to assistance for the purpose of building the capacity of such government to meet the requirements of this subparagraph. The Secretary of the Treasury or the Secretary of State, as appropriate, shall instruct the United States executive director of each international financial institution and the United States representatives to all forest-related multilateral financing mechanisms and processes to vote against any financing to support or promote the expansion of industrial scale logging or any other industrial scale extractive activity into areas that were primary/intact tropical forest as of December 30, 2013. The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States executive director of each international financial institution to vote in relation to any loan, grant, strategy or policy of such institution to support the construction of any large hydroelectric dam (as defined in Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making, World Commission on Dams (November 2000)), only in accordance with the procedures and requirements specified under this heading in the report accompanying this Act. Not later than 90 days after enactment of this Act, the USAID Administrator shall designate sufficient personnel with the technical expertise to fulfill the agency’s responsibilities under sections 1302, 1303, and 1307 of title XIII of the International Financial Institutions Act of 1977, as amended, including the ability for personnel with such expertise from the Environmental Protection Agency, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and other relevant United States Government agencies to be detailed to USAID, as needed, which may be on a non-reimbursable basis, to provide additional technical support and specific subject matter reviews: , That the responsibilities of such personnel shall include, but not be limited to— Provided further conducting independent, technical, and thorough reviews of proposed multilateral development bank
(MDB)projects at the technical assessment/feasibility stage prior to the drafting of an environmental impact assessment; conducting such reviews, and coordinating and compiling the analyses by other relevant United States Government agencies, of the environmental impact assessment; and ongoing monitoring of MDB projects to determine the degree of incorporation and effectiveness of United States Government recommendations and the adequacy of safeguard policies. Section 7081(g)(2) and
(4)of division F of Public Law 111–117 shall continue in effect during fiscal year 2015 as if part of this Act. Of the funds appropriated by title III of this Act, not less than $1,000,600,000 should be made available for food security and agricultural development programs, of which $32,000,000 shall be made available for the Feed the Future Collaborative Research Innovation Lab: , That such funds may be made available notwithstanding any other provision of law to address food shortages, and for a United States contribution to the endowment of the Global Crop Diversity Trust. Provided Of the funds appropriated by this Act, not less than $210,302,000 should be made available for microenterprise and microfinance development programs for the poor, especially women. Of the funds appropriated by this Act under the headings Economic Support Fund and Development Assistance , not less than $25,000,000 shall be made available to support people-to-people reconciliation programs which bring together individuals of different ethnic, religious, and political backgrounds from areas of civil strife and war: , That the USAID Administrator shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations, prior to the initial obligation of funds, on the uses of such funds: Provided That to the maximum extent practicable, such funds shall be matched by sources other than the United States Government. Provided further, Of the funds appropriated by this Act under the headings Development Assistance , Economic Support Fund , and International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement , not less than $49,244,000 shall be made available for activities to combat trafficking in persons internationally. Of the funds appropriated by this Act, not less than $400,000,000 shall be made available for water and sanitation supply projects pursuant to the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 ( Public Law 109–121 ), of which not less than $15,000,000 shall be made available for programs to design and build safe, public latrines for women and girls in Africa and Asia. Authorized deviations from funding levels contained in this section shall be subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations.
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  • Pub. L. 111-117
  • Pub. L. 110-246
  • Pub. L. 111-203
  • Pub. L. 109-121
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Sec. 7060
Pub. L.Pub. L. 111-117
Pub. L.Pub. L. 110-246
Pub. L.Pub. L. 111-203
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