Sec. 7060.

1,351 words·~6 min read·/bill/114/s/2130/pcs/section-7060

A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.

Funds appropriated by this Act that are made available for assistance for basic education may only be made available for each country at a funding level for basic education that does not exceed that contained in the Congressional Budget Justification, Foreign Operations, Summary Tables, Fiscal Year 2016: , That such funds may only be used to implement the stated objectives of each Country Development Cooperation Strategy or similar strategy: Provided , That the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), following consultation with the Committees on Appropriations, may reprogram funds between countries, except that no such reprogramming may result in an overall funding level for basic education exceeding the total amount justified for fiscal year 2016.

Provided further If the USAID Administrator determines that any unobligated balances of funds specifically designated for basic education in prior Acts making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs are in excess of the absorptive capacity of recipient countries, such funds may be made available for other programs authorized under chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, notwithstanding such funding designation: , That the authority of this paragraph shall be subject to prior consultation with, and the regular notification procedures of, the Committees on Appropriations.

Provided Of the funds appropriated by title III of this Act, not less than $225,000,000 shall be made available for assistance for higher education, of which not less than $35,000,000 should be to support new partnerships between higher education institutions in the United States and developing countries. For purposes of funds appropriated under title III of this Act, the term democracy programs in section 7032(c) of this Act shall also include programs to rescue scholars, and fellowships, scholarships, and exchanges in the Middle East and North Africa for academic professionals and university students from countries in such region, subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations.

Of the funds appropriated by this Act under the heading Development Assistance , not less than $26,000,000 shall be made available for the American Schools and Hospitals Abroad program, and not less than $12,000,000 shall be made available for cooperative development programs of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appropriated by this Act or prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs may be made available for the Green Climate Fund, including as a contribution: , That any such funds made available for such purpose shall be subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations.

Provided Funds appropriated by this Act may be made available for United States contributions to the Clean Technology Fund and the Strategic Climate Fund. Funds appropriated by this Act to carry out the provisions of section 103 to 106, and chapter 4 of part II, of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 may be used to support environment programs, notwithstanding any other provision of law except for the provisions of this subsection: , That such funds are subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations.

Provided Of the funds appropriated under title III of this Act, $250,000,000 shall be made available for biodiversity conservation programs. Not less than $55,000,000 of the funds appropriated under title III and IV of this Act shall be made available to combat the transnational threat of wildlife poaching and trafficking: , That 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 interest of the United States.

Provided Funds appropriated by this Act for biodiversity programs shall not be used to support the expansion of industrial scale logging or any other industrial scale extractive activity into areas that were primary/intact tropical forests as of December 30, 2013, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States executive directors of each international financial institutions

(IFI)to vote against any financing of any such activity. The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States executive director of each IFI that it is the policy of the United States to vote in relation to any loan, grant, strategy, or policy of such institution to support the construction of any large dam consistent with the criteria set forth in the report accompanying this Act, while also considering whether the project involves important foreign policy objectives. Of the funds appropriated under title III of this Act, $123,500,000 shall be made available for sustainable landscape programs. 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 prevent or address food shortages, and for a United States contribution to the endowment of the Global Crop Diversity Trust. Provided Funds appropriated under title III of this Act may be made available as a contribution to the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program if such contribution will not cause the United States to exceed 33 percent of the total amount of funds contributed to such Program. Of the funds appropriated by this Act, not less than $265,000,000 should be made available for microenterprise and microfinance development programs for the poor, especially women. Of the funds appropriated by this Act, $76,700,000 shall be made available for the Power Africa initiative, subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 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 $52,500,000 shall be made available for activities to combat trafficking in persons internationally. Of the funds appropriated by this Act under the heading Development Assistance , in addition to funds made available pursuant to paragraph (1), $25,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be made available on a competitive basis for a grant or grants to support innovative strategies, on a cost-matching basis, that reduce the prevalence of modern slavery in targeted populations within partner countries (or jurisdictions thereof) with a high prevalence of modern slavery: , That for the purposes of this paragraph the terms Provided modern slavery and partner countries shall have the same meaning as provided for in section 9 of the End Modern Slavery Initiative Act of 2015 (S. 553), as reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on February 26, 2015: , That the requirements of section 7631(d) of title 22, United States Code, shall apply to such funds. Provided further Of the funds appropriated by this Act under the headings Economic Support Fund and Development Assistance , not less than $26,000,000 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, not less than $400,000,000 shall be made available for water supply and sanitation projects pursuant to the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 ( Public Law 109–121 ), of which not less than $145,000,000 should be for programs in sub-Saharan Africa, and of which not less than $14,000,000 shall be made available for programs to design and build safe, public latrines 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.

Connections1 off-index

1 reference not yet in our index

Pub. L. 109-121

Citation graph

cites case law

Sec. 7060

Pub. L.Pub. L. 109-121

Cites 1Cited by 0 across 0 sources