(Conference report filed in House, H. Rept. 97-413) International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981 - Title I: Military and Related Assistance and Sales - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to set the trigger price for transfers of defense equipment, articles, and services which would require the President to submit a certification to Congress before consenting to such transfer. Prohibits the President from consenting to transfers of defense equipment, articles, or services whose value exceeds such trigger price and whose export has been licensed or approved until a specified time after the certification has been submitted to Congress. Deletes the provision which exempted from the certification requirement transfers to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), any NATO member, Japan, Australia, or New Zealand. Extends the time within which the President must report the price and availability estimates of such defense articles, services, and major equipment. Retains the current trigger price which would make it necessary for the President to include in such report a request by a foreign country for a letter of offer to sell defense equipment, articles, or services. Increases, with respect to letters of offers to sell, the trigger price of defense equipment, articles, or services which would require the President to submit a specified certification to the appropriate congressional committees. Increases, with respect to applications for export licenses, the trigger price of defense equipment, articles, or services which would require the President to submit a specified certification to Congress. Provides for expedited consideration of transfers of defense materials to NATO, a NATO member, Japan, Australia, or New Zealand. Makes the President's consent to such a transfer effective within 15 (rather than 30) days of its submission to Congress, unless Congress adopts a concurrent resolution disapproving such transfer. Makes such consent effective immediately if an emergency exists. Provides for expedited consideration of such concurrent resolution. Requires the President to report to Congress within 48 hours of the existence of, or a change in status of, certain hostilities or terrorist acts (currently after the outbreak of significant hostilities) involving a country in which U.S. personnel are performing certain defense services. Requires such report to include: (1) the country's identity; (2) a description of such hostilities or terrorist acts; (3) the number of U.S. armed forces and civilians who may be endangered (currently the report must also include their location, the nature of their activities, and the likelihood of their becoming endangered). Authorizes the President to reduce or waive certain charges and costs involved in producing defense articles and equipment which would advance standardization of U.S. armed forces with the armed forces of Japan, Australia, or New Zealand. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for the foreign military sales credit and guarantee program. Sets the ceiling for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 on: (1) the total amount of military sales credits; and (2) the total principal amount of loan guarantees for foreign military sales. Allots a specified amount of such credits and guaranteed loans for Israel. Allots a specified amount of such loan guarantees for Greece. Provides repayment terms for loans to specified countries under the foreign military sales loan guarantee program. Allots specified amounts of the foreign military sales credits for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for Egypt and the Sudan. Authorizes using specified funds in fiscal years 1982 and 1983 to finance Israeli procurement of defense articles and services. Releases Israel from the duty to repay a specified amount. Repeals the ceiling on commercial arms export sales. Directs the President to review periodically the items on the U.S. Munitions list. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a Special Defense Acquisition Fund to finance the acquisition of defense articles and services in anticipation of their transfer to eligible foreign countries and international organizations. Sets forth the sources of the Fund's money. Limits the size of the Fund. Authorizes the use of such Fund to pay for the costs acquisition and transfer of such defense articles and services. Directs the President to report to Congress annually on acquisitions and likely procurements to be made through the Fund. Prohibits the transfer of any defense articles or services acquired by such Fund to any foreign country or international organization, unless authorized by law. Authorizes the temporary use of such defense articles and services by U.S. armed forces prior to their transfer. Authorizes the President to lease in-stock defense articles to an eligible foreign country or international organization if: (1) the President determines there are compelling foreign policy and national security reasons for leasing rather than selling such articles; (2) the President determines the articles are not presently needed for public use; and (3) the foreign country or international organization has agreed to pay all costs incurred in leasing such articles. Limits each lease agreement to five years duration. Requires each lease to provide that the President may terminate the lease and require immediate return of the leased articles. Authorizes loans for leases of such defense articles. Directs the President to submit a certification to Congress before entering into or renewing such a lease or loan. Authorizes the waiver of such certification if the President reports to Congress that an emergency exists. Prohibits any lease or loan of defense equipment or articles valued at or above specified amounts if Congress objects to the proposed lease or loan by adopting a concurrent resolution. Exempts from such legislative review loans or leases to NATO, any NATO member, Japan, Australia, or New Zealand. Applies laws restricting the countries or organizations in which sales may be made to leases of defense articles under this Act. Makes the Secretary of State responsible for the supervision and general direction of such leases. Requires such leases to meet the same prerequisites for consent by the President as sales of such articles or services. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require loan agreements covering defense articles to provide for restoration or replacement of loaned defense articles which are damaged, lost, or destroyed. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to repeal the provision relating to leasing defense property. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to eliminate the requirement that the President report to Congress on certain leases of military property to foreign governments. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for military assistance. Increases the ceiling on funds available to the President for military assistance to countries in emergency situations. Deletes a specified limitation on the amount of funds the President may transfer to a friendly country for military assistance. Repeals the provision which terminated the authority to furnish military assistance to any country unless Congress specifically authorized such assistance. Sets the limitation on additions to stockpiles of defense articles for foreign countries for fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Eliminates the requirement of specific congressional authorization for the operation of a military assistance advisory group, military mission, or organization of U.S. military personnel in a foreign country. Authorizes the President to assign U.S. military personnel to a foreign country to perform specified functions. Limits advisory and training assistance conducted by such personnel. Expresses the sense of Congress that advising and training assistance in countries to which such personnel are assigned shall be provided by other personnel who are detailed for limited periods to perform specific tasks. Limits to six the number of such military personnel assigned to a foreign country unless specifically authorized by Congress. Authorizes the President to waive this limitation upon reporting to Congress that U.S. interests require that more than six be assigned to carry out international security assistance programs. Authorizes specified countries to have military personnel strengths larger than six for fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Prohibits the total number of such military personnel assigned to a foreign country from exceeding the number justified to Congress, unless the appropriate congressional committees are notified before the introduction of the additional military personnel. Specifies the funds which will be charged with the costs of overseas management of international security assistance programs. Retains the provisions which: (1) make the Chief of the U.S. Diplomatic Mission responsible for supervising such military personnel; and (2) restrict encouragement by U.S. diplomatic and military personnel of military equipment purchases by foreign countries. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for: (1) international military education and training; and (2) peacekeeping operations. Limits the amount of funds which may be transferred in any fiscal year from economic support funds for peacekeeping operations. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to prohibit issuing any letters of offer or arms export licenses or extending military sales credits or guarantees to any country that the President determines is engaged consistently in acts of intimidation or harassment against individuals in the United States. Directs the President to report such determination to Congress. Title II: Economic Support Fund - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for the Economic Support Fund. Deletes provisions relating to: (1) the use of fiscal year 1981 funds; and (2) Central American economic support. Allots a minimum amount of the authorized economic support funds for such years for Israel and Egypt on a grant basis. Authorizes making such funds available to Israel as a cash transfer. Replaces funds authorized and appropriated for Egypt and Israel in fiscal year 1981 which were reprogrammed to aid other countries. Authorizes the use of a specified amount of such funds under the famine prevention and freedom from hunger programs to build agricultural extension services in Egypt for the small farmer. Authorizes the use of a specified amount of such funds for such years for special requirements in the Middle East, if the President makes a specified report to Congress. Requires the President to report to Congress at the end of each of fiscal years 1981-1983 on the use of such funds. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should finance and participate in cooperative scientific and technological projects involving Israel, Egypt, and other Middle East countries. Authorizes the use of a specified amount of economic support funds for such projects. Deobligates all economic support funds appropriated in prior fiscal years for Syria. Expresses the sense of the Congress that specified amounts of the economic support funds should be earmarked for relief programs by nonprofit U.S. organizations in Lebanon. Requires a minimum of two-thirds of the economic support funds available for Turkey for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 to be provided on a grant basis. Allots a specified amount of the economic support funds for each of fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for Cyprus with specified amounts earmarked for scholarships for Cypriot students in the United States. Prohibits use of economic support funds available for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 to finance any foreign nuclear facility, unless the President certifies to Congress that it is indispensable to achievement of nonproliferation objectives. Earmarks a specified amount of economic support funds for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for emergency use when U.S. national interests require economic support to promote stability. Authorizes obligating, as a special requirements fund, a specified amount of the funds appropriated for the Economic Support Fund. Requires Congress to be notified before the funds are obligated. Allots specified amounts of the economic support funds for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for Tunisia, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. Requires that a specified percentage of the funds allocated under the commodity import program be used to finance purchases of farm commodities produced in the United States. Title III: Development Assistance - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for agricultural development programs, with a specified amount earmarked for aid to private and voluntary organizations dealing with world hunger problems. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should strongly support the efforts of developing countries to improve infant feeding practices. Authorizes spending a specified amount to help such countries establish or improve infant feeding programs. States that the Agency for International Development (AID) should fund research on the problems relating to infant feeding practices in developing countries. Directs the President to report to Congress on the: (1) actions taken by AID to promote breast feeding and to improve supplemental infant feeding practices in developing countries; (2) studies relating to such practices; and (3) reports by countries implementing the International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes. Authorizes appropriations for continued participation in the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for: (1) voluntary population planning programs, with a specified percentage earmarked for the United Nations Fund for Population Activities; and (2) health programs. Prohibits using such funds for research related to abortion or voluntary sterilization. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for: (1) education and human resources development programs, with a minimum amount earmarked to finance scholarships for disadvantaged South African students; and (2) energy, private voluntary organizations, and selected development activities. Adds disaster preparedness programs to the list of programs eligible for development assistance. Earmarks certain funds for international programs that support the original goals of the United Nations Decade for Women. Authorizes using a specified minimum amount for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 to promote human rights. Authorizes the President to assist developing countries in strengthening their capacity to protect and manage their environment and natural resources. Directs the President to take into account the environmental impact of development programs on developing countries. Requires agencies responsible for such programs to take into account: (1) an environmental impact statement for any development program significantly affecting the environment of the United States or of areas outside the jurisdiction of any country; and (2) an environmental assessment of any proposed program significantly affecting a foreign country's environment. Expresses the concern of the Congress about the continuing loss of tropical forests in developing countries. Directs the President to consider such concerns and the recommendations of the U.S. Interagency Task Force on Tropical Forests: (1) in carrying out programs with respect to developing countries; and (2) in seeking opportunities to coordinate development and investment activities which affect such forests. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct U.S. representatives to international organizations to urge that: (1) higher priority be given to the problems of tropical forest alteration and loss; and (2) there be improved cooperation among these organizations with respect to tropical forest activities. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for implementation of the Sahel development program. Conditions disbursement of such funds upon a finding that the foreign government will maintain an accounting system which adequately provides identification of and control over the receipt and expenditure of those funds. Requires that at least twelve percent of the funds authorized for development assistance and disaster preparedness for fiscal years 1982-1984 be made available to private voluntary organizations. States that the President shall seek to channel not less than sixteen percent of such funds to such organizations. Prohibits such funding for a program of a private voluntary organization if the program, after a specified date, does not obtain at least twenty percent of its total annual support for its international activities from non-Federal sources. Provides for the waiver of such prohibition. Increases and extends through fiscal year 1983 the authorization of appropriations for worldwide housing guaranty programs. Sets up a revolving fund in the Treasury for all fees derived from certain guaranty programs. Authorizes investment of such funds in U.S. obligations. Authorizes U.S. participation in the International Food Policy Research Institute. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for: (1) participation in international organizations and programs, with specified percentages of such funds earmarked for various United Nations Funds and programs; (2) trade and development programs; and (3) the African Development Foundation. Title IV: Food for Peace Programs - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to: (1) authorize the President to agree to sell agricultural commodities for foreign currencies on credit terms and on terms which permit conversion to dollars at the exchange rate applicable to the sales agreement; (2) eliminate the provision for the progressive transition from sales for foreign currencies to sales for dollars; (3) repeal the provision which excluded from the definition of friendly country any country or area dominated by a communist government; (4) repeal the requirement that purchasing countries identify food commodities sold for foreign currencies as being provided through U.S. generosity; (5) authorize the President to use for specified purposes the foreign currencies which accrue from such sales entered into before a specified date (currently in connection with such sales); and (6) require payments by friendly countries for commodities purchased for foreign currencies to be upon terms no less favorable to the United States than those for development loans. Repeals provisions which: (1) authorize the financing of the ocean transportation costs for such sales; and (2) require a minimum allocation of foreign currencies for self-help measures. Increases the maximum amount of such foreign currencies which may be used for emergency relief requirements rather than for commodities. Directs the President to consider, before agreeing to sell U.S. agricultural commodities, to what extent a recipient country is using self-help measures to reduce illiteracy among farmers and to improve farmers' health. Requires each such agreement to describe the economic development and self-help measures extensively and in a manner which ensures that the country's needy people will be the major beneficiaries of the self-help measures. Directs the President to ensure that the self-help provisions are additional to measures that would otherwise be undertaken and to determine whether such provisions are being fully carried out. Decreases the minimum quantity of agricultural commodities which must be distributed through nonprofit voluntary agencies and the World Food Program for famine relief in fiscal year 1982. Title V: Other Assistance Programs - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for: (1) American schools and hospitals abroad; (2) international narcotics control; (3) international disaster assistance; and (4) assistance for displaced persons in Central America. Deletes the prohibition against the use of international narcotics control funds to pay for herbicide spraying to eradicate marihuana. Directs the Secretary of State to inform the Secretary of Health and Human Services if herbicide is going to be used on marihuana. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to monitor the impact on marihuana users of such herbicide spraying and to report to Congress if such users are exposed to harmful amounts of herbicide. Urges the President to spend at least a specified amount to develop a substance that warns marihuana users that marihuana has been sprayed with a harmful herbicide. Requires such a substance, if developed, to be used with the herbicide. Deletes specified limitations that previously applied to using narcotics control funds appropriated for fiscal year 1980 and obligated for Colombia. Directs the President to report to Congress on U.S. policy for establishing an international strategy to prevent narcotics trafficking. Authorizes the President to furnish assistance for resettling Haitians in Belize. Title VI: Peace Corps - Amends the Peace Corps Act to establish the Peace Corps as an independent agency within the executive branch. Transfers to the Director of the Peace Corps all functions relating to the Peace Corps which were vested in the Director of the ACTION agency. Provides for the transfer of personnel, contracts, property records, and funds used primarily by the Peace Corps to the Peace Corps. Prohibits the transfer of personnel from causing a loss of employee benefits for such personnel for a specified period of time. Requires transferred personnel to be assigned to functions and units related to their assignments before enactment. Requires collective bargaining agreements covering Peace Corps personnel or transferred personnel to continue to be recognized by the Peace Corps. Requires each person employed primarily in connection with any function relating to the Peace Corps who does not hold a Foreign Service appointment to be appointed a member of the Foreign Service, except that: (1) for three years no person currently holding a career or career-conditional appointment shall be appointed a member of the Foreign Service without such person's consent; and (2) each transferred person who held an appointment below a specified grade level shall be appointed a member of the Foreign Service for the duration of operations under the Peace Corps Act (thus, not subject to such Act's five-year appointment limitation). Authorizes the President to delegate the authority to carry out the Peace Corps Act only to the Director of the Peace Corps. Amends such Act to delete certain provisions relating to readjustment allowance payments to Peace Corps volunteers. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Comptroller General to submit reports to the appropriate congressional committees on the implementation of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for the Peace Corps for fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Requires the Peace Corps to give particular attention to programs which tend to integrate disabled people into developing countries' national economies. Authorizes the Director of the Peace Corps to procure legal services under certain conditions. Applies the malpractice protection currently covering State Department personnel to Peace Corps volunteers and personnel. Removes present malpractice protection for Peace Corps volunteers. Removes the applicability of the Mutual Defense Control Act of 1951 to the functions of the Peace Corps. Title VII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require property already owned by a Federal agency to be used in furnishing international development assistance in lieu of or supplementary to purchasing new items. Makes permanent the exemption from limitations on U.S. assistance for construction of productive enterprises in Egypt. Provides for compensation of Federal agency employees assigned to work outside the United States. Sets forth the material which must be contained in a notification to Congress of changes in foreign assistance programs if the changes involve costs above a specified amount. Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to establish in the Agency for International Development (AID) an office of Inspector General. Directs the Inspector General of such Agency to supervise all security activities relating to AID operations and to supervise all audit, investigative, and security activities relating to operations within the U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency to the extent requested by the Director of such Agency. Directs the Inspector General of AID to appoint an Assistant Inspector General for security. Authorizes the Inspector General of AID to assign members of the Foreign Service as employees of the Inspector General. Exempts AID from specified overseas personnel ceilings. Repeals the provision requiring the appointment of an Auditor General for the international development program. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for the operating expenses of administering the international development program. Urges the President to use existing authorities to provide Poland with feed grains under as favorable terms as possible. Encourages the President to enter multilateral discussions on methods of aiding Poland's economic recovery. Earmarks a specified amount for use by Poland to purchase food and medical supplies. Directs the President to use the currencies or credits received from Poland from the sale of surplus dairy products to serve U.S. interests in Poland. Declares that eliminating hunger shall be a primary objective of U.S. relations with developing countries. Directs the President to: (1) encourage other grain exporting countries to establish food security reserves; and (2) report to Congress on the actions taken by the President and the response of other countries. Reaffirms congressional support for human rights provisions. Expresses the sense of the Congress that a strong commitment to defending human rights should continue to be a central feature of U.S. foreign policy. Grants the approval necessary for the issuance of immigrant visas to persons from Taiwan. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should continue to support diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in Lebanon and to pursue a policy in Lebanon guided by specified principles. Condemns the use of or the provision of chemical agents and toxin weapons against the peoples of Laos, Kampuchea, or Afghanistan. States that the President, through diplomatic agents, should seek to end actions by any party or government using or providing such materials against such peoples. Urges the President to: (1) allocate the highest possible priority to clarify the nature and origins of the chemical agents and toxin weapons being used; and (2) seek a satisfactory explanation from the Soviet Union regarding the strong evidence of its role in using or providing such weapons. Reiterates the concern of Congress over the failure of the Soviet Union to respond adequately to requests for data explaining a recent outbreak of pulmonary anthrax in the Soviet Union. States that negotiation of a treaty prohibiting the development, production and stockpiling of chemical weapons should be given a high priority. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should, through diplomatic means, try to obtain payment by the Soviet Union of its debts to the United Nations. Condemns Libya for its support for international terrorism, its efforts to obstruct a peaceful resolution in the Middle East, and its actions to destabilize neighboring African countries. States that the President should report to Congress on steps the United States and its allies could take to pressure Libya to cease such activities. States that the United States should ensure that no U.S. citizen is acting in the service of terrorism. Directs the President to report to Congress on the legislative and administrative means available to prevent participation by U.S. citizens in international terrorism. Directs the President to consider, before deciding on providing foreign aid to a country, whether that country has dissociated itself from the communique issued after the 1981 Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Heads of Delegations of the Non-Aligned Countries to the U.N. General Assembly. Directs the President to report to Congress on the countries that have dissociated themselves from the communique. Expresses the sense of Congress that up to $15,000,000 of international development funds should be made available for development assistance for Haiti. States that the development assistance for Haiti for fiscal year 1982 should be provided through private and voluntary organizations to the maximum extent possible. Authorizes funding for development assistance, military assistance, military education and training, and arms credits and guarantees for fiscal year 1982 for Haiti only if the President determines that Haiti's government: (1) has cooperated in halting illegal emigration from Haiti; (2) has not supported such illegal emigration; (3) has provided assurances that it will cooperate in implementing U.S. development assistance programs in Haiti; and (4) is not engaged in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights. Directs the President to report to Congress each six months on the extent to which Haiti's actions are consistent with such determinations. Expresses the sense of the Congress that plans for future foreign assistance programs should be reviewed. Requests the President to report to Congress on the President's approach to foreign assistance. Requires such report to include an analysis of specified issues. Directs the President to report to Congress on the economic conditions prevailing in Egypt, Israel, and Turkey that may affect their ability to meet their international debts and to stabilize their economies. Directs the President to consider, in furnishing assistance to Nicaragua, the extent to which Nicaragua has engaged in violations of internationally recognized human rights and the extent to which it has fulfilled a specified pledge to the Organization of American States. Requires aid to Nicaragua to be ended if the President reports to Congress that: (1) Nicaragua cooperates with or harbors international terrorists; (2) Nicaragua supports terrorism in other countries; or (3) foreign military forces are stationed in Nicaragua and such forces threaten U.S. national security or the national security of a Latin American ally of the United States. Requires that any agreement between the United States and Nicaragua regarding loans under this Act shall provide for the loans to be used to help the private sector. Directs the President to submit a report to Congress accounting for the funds obligated and spent in Nicaragua. Repeals the prohibition against assistance and arms sales to Argentina. Authorizes the provision of military assistance, economic assistance, arms sales credits, and export licenses only if the President certifies to the Speaker of the House and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Argentina has made significant progress in complying with internationally recognized human rights principles and that the provision of such assistance is in the interest of the United States. Welcomes Argentina's actions to adjudicate the cases of those detained by the Government. Expresses the hope that progress will continue especially with regard to: (1) those Argentinians listed as disappeared who have died; and (2) those prisoners who have neither been released nor tried. Amends the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976 to repeal the limitations on assistance, sales, and sales credits to Chile. Directs the President to report to Congress before furnishing certain economic and military aid to Chile under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms Export Control Act. Requires such report to certify that: (1) Chile has made significant progress in complying with internationally recognized principles of human rights; (2) the provision of such assistance is in the U.S. national interest; and (3) Chile is not aiding or abetting international terrorism and has taken steps to bring to justice those persons indicted by a U.S. grand jury for the murders of Orlando Letelier and Ronnie Moffitt. Expresses the sense of Congress that assistance furnished to El Salvador should be used to encourage: (1) observance of internationally recognized human rights; (2) continued progress in implementing essential economic and political reforms; (3) an investigation of the deaths in El Salvador of U.S. citizens; (4) an end to extremist violence; (5) free elections; and (6) increased professional capability of the Salvadoran military to establish a peaceful and secure environment. Declares that it should be U.S. policy to support El Salvador in the implementation of land and banking reforms. Welcomes the efforts of El Salvador's government to establish greater control over the armed forces. Supports holding free elections at the earliest possible date. Authorizes obligating funds for military and economic assistance for El Salvador only if prior to each grant of assistance the President certifies to Congress that El Salvador's government is: (1) making a significant effort to comply with internationally recognized human rights; (2) achieving substantial control over its armed forces; (3) making progress in implementing essential economic and political reforms; and (4) committed to holding free elections and has demonstrated its willingness to negotiate a political resolution of the conflict. Requires the President, upon making such certification, to certify to Congress that El Salvador has made good faith efforts to investigate the murders of six Americans and to bring those responsible to justice. Directs the President, if such certification is not made, to: (1) suspend specified military assistance and training for El Salvador; (2) withhold approvals for use of certain credits and guarantees for El Salvador; (3) suspend deliveries of certain defense articles and services and design and construction services; and (4) withdraw from El Salvador all U.S. armed forces performing specified functions. Directs the President to report to Congress on the viewpoints of: (1) all major parties to the conflict in El Salvador and of their interest in a political settlement; and (2) certain other nations on a negotiated settlement. Directs the President, through appropriate means, to consult with representatives of the parties to the Salvadoran conflict, democratic governments of Latin America, and other governments regarding a settlement of the conflict. Prohibits using funds authorized by this Act for aid to El Salvador for planning for compensation or compensation for the confiscation, nationalization, acquisition, or expropriation of farms or banks. Expresses the sense of the Congress that petitions for extended voluntary departure by Salvadorans should continue to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. States that the reviewers should consider the civil strife in El Salvador in deciding on such petitions. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to consolidate reports required under such Act within the President's annual estimate and justification for arms sales. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to consolidate within the President's annual report to Congress on foreign assistance various reports which are currently required. Repeals specified provisions of the following Acts: (1) Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (including prohibitions against foreign assistance to Communist dominated or controlled countries and against assistance to countries preparing for aggressive military efforts); (2) International Development Cooperation Act of 1980 (including restriction on aid to El Salvador); (3) International Development Cooperation Act of 1979; (4) Special International Security Assistance Act of 1979; (5) International Development and Food Assistance Acts of 1975, 1977, and 1978; (6) Foreign Assistance Acts of 1973 and 1974; (7) Arms Export Control Act; (8) International Security Assistance Acts of 1977, 1978, and 1979; (9) International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976; and (10) Foreign Military Sales Act Amendments. Directs the President to include beginning in fiscal year 1983 in the President's annual report to Congress on foreign assistance a classified report describing the nuclear programs and related activities of countries which received a waiver under the laws relating to transfers of nuclear enrichment materials. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to reaffirm the U.S. commitment made in an agreement with Pakistan relating to communist aggression. Requires security assistance to be made available to Pakistan to deal with the threat to its security posed by the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. Authorizes the President, during a specified time, to waive the prohibitions contained in provisions relating to the transfer or receipt of nuclear material in order to provide aid to Pakistan. Makes ineffective any Presidential authorization of aid to a country that would otherwise be prohibited because of transfers of nuclear material, if Congress adopts a concurrent resolution disapproving furnishing such aid. Reformulates the limitations on nuclear reprocessing tranfers, transfers of nuclear explosive devices, and nuclear detonations. Prohibits U.S. aid to countries which deliver or receive nuclear reprocessing equipment, materials, or technology unless the transfer is associated with the search for alternatives to pure plutonium reprocessing. Authorizes the President to furnish U.S. aid to such a country if the President certifies to Congress that ending such aid would be seriously prejudicial to the achievement of U.S. nonproliferation objectives or would otherwise jeopardize the common defense and security. Makes such certification ineffective if Congress adopts a concurrent resolution disapproving of furnishing such assistance. Prohibits providing military or economic assistance, unless there is such a Presidential certification, to countries which transfer a nuclear explosive device to a non-nuclear weapon state. Prohibits such aid to a non-nuclear weapon state that receives or detonates a nuclear explosive device. Authorizes the President to continue U.S. aid to such countries for a limited time if the President, before furnishing such aid, certifies to Congress that an immediate termination of aid would be detrimental to U.S. national security. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition if Congress enacts a joint resolution authorizing such waiver.
S 1196 - 97International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981
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(Measure passed House, amended, in lieu of H.R. 3566) International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981 - Title I: Military and Related Assistance and Sales - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to set the trigger price for transfers of defense equipment, articles, and services which would require the President to submit a certification to Congress before consenting to such transfer. Exempts such transfers from the 30 day waiting period between submission of certification and effectiveness of consent if the recipient is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), any NATO member, Japan, Australia or New Zealand. Requires the President to submit the certification before consenting to such a transfer unless an emergency exists. Prohibits the President from consenting to a transfer of defense articles or services valued at such trigger price, from one foreign country or international organization to another, unless the President submits a certification to Congress before consenting. Requires all such certifications to be submitted 30 days before the President consents, unless the transfer is to NATO, any NATO member, Japan, Australia, or New Zealand. Deletes the provision which exempted transfers to such countries from the certification requirement. Extends the time within which the President must report the price and availability estimates of such defense articles, services, and major equipment. Retains the current trigger price which would make it necessary for the President to include in such report a request by a foreign country for a letter of offer to sell defense equipment, articles, or services. Increases, with respect to letters of offers to sell, the trigger price of defense equipment, articles, or services which would require the President to submit a specified certification to the appropriate Congressional committees. Requires all such certifications to be submitted 30 days before a letter of offer is issued, unless an emergency exists or the recipient of the letter is NATO, any NATO member, Japan, Australia, or New Zealand. Requires certifications for such countries before the letters are issued unless an emergency exists. Increases the trigger price, with respect to applications for export licenses of defense equipment, articles, or services, which would require the President to submit a specified certification to Congress. Eliminates the 30 day waiting period between certification by the President and issuance of such an export license for NATO, any NATO member, Japan, Australia, or New Zealand. Requires such certification to be submitted before an export license is issued to such countries unless an emergency exists. Authorizes the President to reduce or waive certain charges and costs involved in producing defense articles and equipment which would advance standardization of U.S. armed forces with the armed forces of Japan, Australia, or New Zealand. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for the foreign military sales credit and guarantee program. Sets the ceiling for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 on: (1) the total amount of military sales credits; and (2) the total principal amount of loan guarantees for foreign military sales. Allots a specified amount of such credits and guaranteed loans for Israel. Allots a specified amount of such loan guarantees for Greece. Authorizes funds for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 to finance procurement by Israel of defense articles and services. Sets forth the terms of repayment by specified countries of such loan guarantees. Directs the President to review periodically the items on the U.S. Munitions List. Includes extraordinary expenses in charges for administrative expenses for foreign military sales. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to establish a Special Defense Acquisition Fund to finance the acquisition of defense articles and services in anticipation of their transfer to eligible foreign countries and international organizations. Requires acquisitions of short supply items to be emphasized when compatible with security assistance requirements. Authorizes appropriations for such Fund for fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Prohibits the transfer of any defense articles or services acquired by such Fund to any foreign country or international organization unless authorized by law. Authorizes the temporary use of such defense articles and services by U.S. armed forces prior to their transfer. Authorizes the use of such Fund to pay for the costs related to the acquisition and transfer of such defense articles and services. Directs the President to report to Congress annually on such acquisitions of defense articles and services. Authorizes the President to lease in-stock defense articles to an eligible foreign country or international organization if: (1) the President determines there are compelling foreign policy and national security reasons for leasing rather than selling such articles; (2) the President determines the articles are not presently needed for public use; and (3) the foreign country or international organization has agreed to pay all costs incurred in leasing such articles. Limits each lease agreement to five years duration. Requires each lease to provide that the President may terminate the lease and require immediate return of the leased articles. Authorizes loans for leases of such defense articles. Directs the President to submit a certification to Congress before entering into or renewing such a lease or loan. Authorizes the waiver of such certification if the President reports to Congress that an emergency exists. Prohibits any lease or loan of defense equipment or articles valued at or above specified amounts if Congress objects to the proposed lease or loan by adopting a concurrent resolution. Exempts such loans or leases to NATO, any NATO member, Japan, Australia, or New Zealand from such legislative review. Applies laws restricting the countries or organizations to which arms sales may be made to leases of defense articles under this Act. Makes the Secretary of State responsible for the supervision and general direction of such leases. Requires such leases to meet the same prerequisites for consent by the President as sales of such articles or services. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require loan agreements covering defense articles to provide for restoration or replacement of loaned defense articles which are damaged, lost, or destroyed. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to repeal the provision relating to leasing defense property. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to eliminate the requirement that the President report to Congress on certain leases of military property to foreign governments. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for military assistance. Allots a specified amount of the military assistance funds available for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 to provide grants to finance procurements of defense articles and services for certain countries for which military sales credits were requested but not made available. Repeals the provision which terminated the authority to furnish military assistance to any country unless Congress specifically authorized such assistance. Sets the limitation on additions to stockpiles of defense articles for foreign countries for fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Eliminates the requirement of specific Congressional authorization for the operation of a military assistance advisory group, military mission, or organization of U.S. military personnel in a foreign country. Authorizes the President to assign U.S. military personnel to a foreign country to perform specified functions. Limits advisory and training assistance conducted by such personnel. Expresses the sense of Congress that advising and training assistance in countries to which such personnel are assigned shall be provided by other personnel who are detailed for limited periods to perform specific tasks. Limits to six the number of such military personnel assigned to a foreign country unless specifically authorized by Congress. Authorizes the President to waive this limitation upon reporting to Congress that U.S. interests require more than six be assigned to carry out international security assistance programs. Authorizes specified countries to have military personnel strengths larger than six for fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Prohibits the total number of such military personnel assigned to a foreign country from exceeding the number justified to Congress, unless the appropriate Congressional committees are notified before the introduction of the additional military personnel. Specifies the funds which will be charged with the costs of overseas management of international security assistance programs. Retains the provisions which: (1) make the Chief of the U.S. Diplomatic Mission responsible for supervising such military personnel; and (2) restrict encouragement by U.S. diplomatic and military personnel of military equipment purchases by foreign countries. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for: (1) international military education and training; and (2) peacekeeping operations. Prohibits using the authority for peacekeeping operations to finance the establishment of a peacekeeping force in the Sinai or to position U.S. military units in the Sinai without express Congressional approval. Increases the amount of funds which may be transferred in any fiscal year from economic support funds for peacekeeping operations. Expresses support for holding free elections in El Salvador. Authorizes the obligation of funds for military and economic assistance under specified Federal laws for El Salvador, only if prior to each such grant of assistance the President certifies to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that El Salvador's Government: (1) is not engaged in consistently violating internationally recognized human rights; (2) has achieved substantial control over its armed forces; (3) is making progress in implementing essential economic and political reforms; (4) is committed to holding free elections; and (5) has demonstrated its willingness to negotiate a political resolution of the conflict. Directs the President, if such certification is not made, to: (1) suspend specified military assistance and military education and training for El Salvador; (2) withhold approvals for use of certain credits and guarantees for El Salvador; (3) suspend deliveries of certain defense articles, defense services, and design and construction services; and (4) withdraw from El Salvador all U.S. armed forces performing specified functions. Prohibits the President from making such certification until the President also certifies that El Salvador's government has made good faith efforts to investigate the murders of six U.S. citizens in El Salvador and to bring those responsible for the murders to justice. Requires security assistance to be available to help Pakistan deal with the security threat posed by the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for economic aid to Pakistan. Makes such aid subject to the limitations established by this Act on nuclear transfers and detonations. States that a nuclear detonation by any non-nuclear weapon state would damage U.S. relations with that country and might cause the termination of U.S. aid to such country. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to reformulate the limitations on nuclear transfers and detonations. Prohibits U.S. aid to countries which: (1) deliver or receive nuclear enrichment materials, unless both countries agree before such delivery to place the materials under multilateral auspices and the receiving country agrees to place all nuclear facilities under specified international safeguards; and (2) deliver or receive such materials unless the transfer is associated with the search for alternatives to pure plutonium reprocessing. Requires the suspension of U.S. aid to any country which transfers a nuclear explosive device to a non-nuclear weapon state. Suspends such aid to a non- nuclear weapon state that receives or detonates a nuclear explosive device. Authorizes the provision of economic or military aid that would otherwise be prohibited because of transfers of nuclear enrichment materials if the President makes a specified certification to Congress. Authorizes Congress to prohibit such aid despite the President's certification if Congress adopts a concurrent resolution disapproving such aid. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to authorize letters of offer, military sales credits and guarantees, and export licenses only to countries that the President certifies to Congress as not being engaged in a consistent pattern of intimidation and harrassment of individuals in the United States. Title II: Economic Support Fund - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for the Economic Support Fund. Deletes provisions relating to: (1) the use of fiscal year 1981 funds; and (2) Central American economic support. Allots a minimum amount of the authorized economic support funds for such years for Israel and Egypt on a grant basis. Authorizes making such funds available to Israel as a cash transfer. Replaces funds authorized and appropriated for Egypt and Israel in fiscal year 1981 which were reprogrammed to aid other countries. Authorizes obligating economic support funds for Egypt to finance activities relating to the reclamation of desert lands (new lands development). Authorizes the use of a specified amount of such funds under the famine prevention and freedom from hunger programs to build agricultural extension services in Egypt for the small farmer. Authorizes the use of a specified amount of such funds for such years for special requirements in the Middle East, if the President makes a specified report to Congress. Requires the President to report to Congress at the end of each of fiscal years 1981-1983 on the use of such funds. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should finance and participate in cooperative scientific and technological projects involving Israel, Egypt and other Middle East countries. Authorizes the use of a specified amount of economic support funds for such projects. Deobligates all economic support funds appropriated in prior fiscal years for Syria, except specified earmarked funds. Authorizes using such deobligated funds to reimburse U.S. companies or persons which meet specified criteria. Earmarks specified amounts for relief and rehabilitation programs in Lebanon for fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Requires a minimum of two-thirds of the economic support funds available for Turkey for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 to be provided on a grant basis. Allots a specified amount of the authorized economic support funds for each of fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for Cyprus. Prohibits use of economic support funds available for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 to finance any foreign nuclear facility, unless the President certifies to Congress that it is indispensable to achievement of nonproliferation objectives. Earmarks a specified amount of economic support funds for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for emergency use when U.S. national interests require economic support to promote stability. Title III: Development Assistance - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for: (1) agricultural development programs; (2) participation in the International Fund for Agricultural Development; (3) assistance for voluntary population planning and health programs, with a prohibition on the use of such funds for abortions or for abortion related research; (4) education and human resources development, with a minimum amount earmarked to finance scholarships for disadvantaged South African students; (5) energy development and production, including an earmarked amount for facilitating geological and geophysical survey work and; (6) private voluntary organizations and selected development activities, including programs of disaster preparedness. Retains references to a target figure and fiscal year for promotion of human rights. Authorizes the President to assist developing countries in strengthening their capacity to protect and manage their environment and natural resources. Directs the President to take into account the environmental impact of development programs on developing countries. Requires agencies responsible for such programs to take into account: (1) an environmental impact statement for any development program significantly affecting the environment of the United States or of areas outside the jurisdiction of any country; and (2) an environmental assessment of any proposed program significantly affecting a foreign country's environment. Expresses the concern of the Congress about the continuing loss of tropical forests in developing countries. Directs the President to consider such concerns and the recommendations of the U.S. Interagency Task force on Tropical Forests: (1) in carrying out programs with respect to developing countries; and (2) in seeking opportunities to coordinate development and investment activities which affect such forests. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct U.S. representatives to international organizations to urge that: (1) higher priority be given to the problems of tropical forest alteration and loss; and (2) there be improved cooperation among these organizations with respect to tropical forest activities. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for implementation of the Sahel development program. Conditions disbursement of such funds upon a finding that the foreign government will maintain an accounting system which adequately provides identification of and control over the receipt and expenditure of those funds. Increases and extends through fiscal year 1983 the authorization of appropriations for worldwide housing guaranty programs. Sets up a revolving fund in the Treasury for all fees derived from certain guaranty programs. Authorizes investment of such funds in U.S. obligations. Authorizes U.S. participation in the International Food Policy Research Institute. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for: (1) participation in international organizations and programs; (2) trade and development programs; and (3) the African Development Foundation. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should strongly support the efforts of developing countries to improve infant feeding practices. Authorizes spending a specified amount to help such countries establish or improve infant feeding programs. Requires the President to report to Congress on such programs. Title IV: Food for Peace Programs - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to: (1) authorize the President to agree to sell agricultural commodities for foreign currencies on credit terms and on terms which permit conversion to dollars at the exchange rate applicable to the sales agreement; (2) eliminate the provision for the progressive transition from sales for foreign currencies to sales for dollars;(3) repeal the provision which excluded from the definition of friendly country any country or area dominated by a communist government; (4) repeal the requirement that purchasing countries identify food commodities sold for foreign currencies as being provided through U.S. generosity; (5) authorize the President to use for specified purposes the foreign currencies which accrue from such sales entered into before a specified date (currently in connection with such sales); and (6) require payments by friendly countries for commodities purchased for foreign currencies to be upon terms no less favorable to the United States than those for development loans. Repeals provisions which: (1) authorize the financing for the ocean transportation costs for such sales; and (2) require a minimum allocation of foreign currencies for self-help measures. Increases the maximum amount of such foreign currencies which may be used for emergency relief requirements rather than for commodities. Directs the President to consider, before agreeing to sell U.S. agricultural commodities, to what extent a recipient country is using self-help measures to reduce illiteracy among farmers and to improve farmers' health. Requires each such agreement to describe the economic development and self-help measures extensively and in a manner which ensures that the country's needy people will be the major beneficiaries of the self-help measures. Directs the President to ensure that the self-help provisions are additional to measures that would otherwise be undertaken and to determine whether such provisions are being fully carried out. Limits the amount of financing from sales of agricultural commodities for foreign currencies which can be made available for any one country beginning in fiscal year 1983. Decreases the minimum quantity of agricultural commodities which must be distributed through nonprofit voluntary agencies and the World Food Program for famine relief in fiscal year 1982. Title V: Other Assistance Programs - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for: (1) American schools and hospitals abroad; (2) international narcotics control; (3) international disaster assistance; and (4) assistance for displaced persons in Central America. Repeals the provision which prohibits the use of aid funds to pay for herbicide spraying to eradicate marihuana. Authorizes the use of funds appropriated before enactment of this Act to pay for such herbicide spraying. Authorizes the use, without limitations, of narcotics control funds appropriated for fiscal year 1980 which were obligated for Colombia. Authorizes the President to furnish assistance for displaced persons in Central America. Authorizes the President to furnish assistance for resettling Haitian nationals in Belize. Title VI: Peace Corps - Requires the Peace Corps to be an independent agency within the executive branch. Amends the Peace Corps Act to delete certain provisions relating to readjustment allowance payments to Peace Corps volunteers. Transfers to the Director of the Peace Corps all functions relating to the Peace Corps which were vested in the Director of the ACTION agency. Provides for the transfer of personnel, contracts, property, records, and funds used primarily by the Peace Corps to the Peace Corps. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Comptroller General to submit reports to the appropriate Congressional committees on the implementation of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for the Peace Corps. Requires the Peace Corps to give particular attention to programs which tend to integrate disabled people into developing countries' national economies. Authorizes the Director of the Peace Corps to procure legal services under certain conditions. Applies the malpractice protection currently covering State Department personnel to Peace Corps volunteers and personnel. Removes present malpractice protection for Peace Corps volunteers. Removes the applicability of the Mutual Defense Control Act of 1951 to the functions of the Peace Corps. Title VII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require property already owned by a Federal agency to be used in furnishing international development assistance in lieu of or supplementary to purchasing new items. Makes permanent the exemption from limitations on U.S. assistance for construction of productive enterprises in Egypt. Provides for compensation of Federal agency employees assigned to work outside the United States. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for the operating expenses of administering the international development program. Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to establish in the Agency for International Development (AID) an office of Inspector General. Directs the Inspector General of such Agency to supervise all security activities relating to AID operations and to supervise all audit, investigative, and security activities relating to operations within the U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency to the extent requested by the Director of such Agency. Directs the Inspector General of AID to appoint an Assistant Inspector General for security. Authorizes the Inspector General of AID to assign members of the Foreign Service as employees of the Inspector General. Exempts AID from specified overseas personnel ceilings. Repeals the provision requiring the appointment of an Auditor General for the international development program. Requires the President to use the currencies or credits received from Poland from the sale of surplus dairy products to serve U.S. interests in Poland. Declares that eliminating hunger shall be a primary objective of U.S. relations with developing countries. Directs the President to: (1) encourage other grain exporting countries to establish food security reserves; and (2) report to Congress on the actions taken by the President and the response of other countries. Expresses the sense of Congress that up to $15,000,000 of international development funds should be made available for development assistance for Haiti. Authorizes additional appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for agricultural research. States that the development assistance for Haiti for such fiscal year should be provided through private and voluntary organizations to the maximum extent possible. Authorizes funding for development assistance, military assistance, military education and training, and arms credits and guarantees for fiscal year year 1982 for Haiti only if the President determines that Haiti's government: (1) has cooperated in halting illegal emigration from Haiti; (2) has not supported such illegal emigration; (3) has provided assurances that it will cooperate in implementing U.S. development assistance programs in Haiti, and (4) is not engaged in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights. Directs the President to report to Congress each six months on the extent to which Haiti's actions are consistent with such determinations. Exempts assistance for halting significant illegal emigration to the United States from the prohibition on aid for police training in foreign countries. Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should take into account whether elections will be held in Nicaragua and whether political groups in Nicaragua will be allowed to promote specific candidates in considering any aid for Nicaragua. Reaffirms Congressional support for human rights provisions. Directs the President to report to the Speaker of the House and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on prevailing economic conditions in Egypt, Israel, and Turkey which may affect their ability to meet international debt obligations and to stabilize their economies. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should continue diplomatic efforts to implement a policy with respect to Lebanon which provides for: (1) an immediate cease fire; (2) reaffirmantion of the U.S.-Lebanon relationship; (3) a commitment to restoring the freedom, sovereignty and integrity of Lebanon; and (4) support for a free and open national election. Repeals the prohibition against assistance and arms sales to Argentina. Authorizes the provision of military assistance, economic assistance, arms sales credits, and export licenses only if the President certifies to the Speaker of the House and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Argentina has made significant progress in complying with internationally recognized human rights principles and that the provision of such assistance is in the interest of the United States. Expresses the sense of Congress that assistance furnished to El Salvador should be used to encourage: (1) observance of internationally recognized human rights; (2) continued progress in implementing essential economic and political reforms; (3) an investigation of the deaths in El Salvador of U.S. citizens; (4) an end to extremist violence; (5) free elections; and (6) increased professional capability of the Salvadoran military to establish a peaceful and secure environment. Expresses the sense of Congress that U.S. economic aid to El Salvador should emphasize revitalizing the private sector and supporting the free market system. Urges the President to set aside a portion of the economic support to provide guarantees to private U.S. banks willing to give credits to the Salvadoran private sector. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should consider, in furnishing aid to Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus, whether these governments are helping to promote a peaceful settlement of the Cyprus dispute. States that a settlement should entail the withdrawal of foreign troops from Cyprus and provide for the return of Cypriot refugees. Urges the President to provide Poland with feed grains under as favorable terms as possible. Encourages the President to pursue discussions about a multilateral effort to help Poland's economic recovery. Earmarks a specified amount of economic support funds for Poland. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State should recommend that extended voluntary departure status be granted to aliens who are nationals of El Salvador until it is safe for them to reside in El Salvador. Directs the President to consider, in furnishing assistance to Nicaragua, the extent to which Nicaragua has engaged in violations of internationally recognized human rights and the extent to which it has fulfilled a specified pledge to the Organization of American States. Requires aid to Nicaragua to be ended if the President reports to Congress that: (1) Nicaragua cooperates with or harbors international terrorists; (2) Nicaragua supports terrorism in other countries; or (3) foreign military forces are stationed in Nicaragua and such forces threaten U.S. national security or the national security of a Latin American ally of the United States. Requires that any agreement between the United States and Nicaragua regarding loans under this Act shall provide for the loans to be used to help the private sector. Grants the approval necessary for the issuance of a specified number of immigrant visas with respect to Taiwan. Condemns the use of or the provision of chemical agents and toxin weapons against the peoples of Laos, Kampuchea, or Afghanistan. States that the President, through diplomatic agents, should seek to end actions by any party or government using or providing such materials against such peoples. Urges the President to: (1) allocate the highest possible priority to clarify the nature and origins of the chemical agents and toxin weapons being used; and (2) seek a satisfactory explanation from the Soviet Union regarding the strong evidence of its role in using or providing such weapons. Reiterates the concern of Congress over the failure of the Soviet Union to respond adequately to requests for data explaining a recent outbreak of pulmonary anthrax in the Soviet Union. States that negotiation of a treaty prohibiting the development, production and stockpiling of chemical weapons should be given a high priority. Directs the President to consider, before deciding on providing foreign aid to a country, whether that country has dissociated itself from the communique issued after the 1981 Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Heads of Delegations of the Non-Aligned Countries to the U.N. General Assembly. Directs the President to report to Congress on the countries that have dissociated themselves from the communique. States that the United States should ensure that no U.S. citizen is acting in the service of terrorism. Directs the President to report to Congress on the legislative and administrative means available to prevent participation by U.S. citizens in international terrorism. Condemns Libya for its support for international terrorism, its efforts to obstruct a peaceful resolution in the Middle East and its actions to neighboring African countries. States that the President should report to Congress on steps the United States and its allies could take to pressure Libya to cease such activities. Limits the total amount appropriated under the authority of this Act for fiscal years 1982 and 1983.
(Measure passed Senate, amended, roll call #330 (40-33)) International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981 - Title I: Military Sales and Related Programs - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to set a trigger price for transfers of defense equipment, articles, and services for which the President would be required to submit a certification to Congress before consenting to such transfer. Prohibits the President from consenting to transfers of defense equipment, articles, or services whose value exceeds such trigger price until a specified time after the certification has been submitted to Congress. Sets the same trigger price for requiring a certification by the President with respect to letters of offer to sell and applications for export licenses. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to set the same trigger price for requiring a certification by the President with respect to leasing defense property. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to make the President's consent to a transfer or sale of defense equipment, articles, and service to NATO, any NATO member, Japan, Australia, or New Zealand effective 15 days after submission of certification, unless Congress adopts a concurrent resolution disapproving such transfer. Makes such consent effective immediately if an emergency exists. Provides for expedited consideration of such concurrent resolution. Requires the President to report to Congress within 48 hours of the existence of, or a change in status of, certain hostilities or terrorist acts (currently after the outbreak of significant hostilities) involving a country in which U.S. personnel are performing certain defense services. Requires such report to include: (1) the country's identity; (2) a description of such hostilities or terrorist acts; and (3) the number of U.S. armed forces and civilians who may be endangered (currently the report must also include their location, the nature of their activities, and the likelihood of their becoming endangered). Authorizes the President to reduce or waive charges for certain nonrecurring research and development costs involved in producing defense articles and equipment which would advance standardization of U.S. armed forces with the armed forces of Japan, Australia, or New Zealand or would advance foreign procurement in the United States. Authorizes appropriations for the military sales credit and guarantee program for fiscal year 1982. Sets the ceiling for fiscal year 1982 on: (1) foreign military sales credits; and (2) foreign military sales loan guarantees. Releases borrowers of such credits from their liability to repay the U.S. government. Allots a specified amount of such credits and loan guarantees for Israel. Deletes the provision which allotted a specified amount for relocating Israeli forces from the Sinai. Obligates foreign military sales credit and guarantee funds for fiscal year 1982 to finance procurement of defense articles and services by Israel. Provides repayment terms for loans to specified countries under the foreign military sales loan guarantee program. Repeals the provision which exempts from the export license requirement the sale of certain defense equipment to specified military allies. Repeals the provision which requires timely reporting to the Secretary of State of contributions paid by any person in connection with sales of defense articles or services. Authorizes the President to restrict such contributions. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a Special Defense Acquisition Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to use such Fund to acquire defense articles and services in anticipation of their transfer to eligible foreign countries and international organizations. Requires acquisitions of short supply items to be emphasized when compatible with security assistance requirements. Sets forth the sources of the Fund's moneys. Limits the size of the Fund. Directs the President to estimate annually for Congress the likely procurements to be made through the Fund. Prohibits the transfer of any defense articles or services acquired by such Fund to any foreign country or international organization unless authorized by such Act or the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Authorizes the temporary use of such defense articles and services by U.S. armed forces prior to their transfer. Authorizes the use of such Fund to pay for the costs related to the acquisition and transfer of such defense articles and services. Amends the provisions for leasing defense articles to direct the Secretary to submit written notification to the Congress before entering into or renewing an agreement to lease major defense equipment to a foreign country or international organization. Specifies the information that such notification must contain. Authorizes the President to waive the required notification if the President determines that the lease must be entered into immediately because an emergency exists. Directs the Secretary to submit a quarterly report to Congress on all property with a specified value that was leased to a foreign government for more than one year. States that all restrictions applicable to countries or organizations to which arms sales may be made are also deemed applicable regarding leases of defense articles. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to repeal the provision relating to leasing defense property. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to eleminate the requirement that the President include in the quarterly report to Congress on military exports a listing of all property valued at $1,000,000 or more which was leased to a foreign government for more than six months. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for military assistance. Increases the aggregate value of defense material which the President can order for military assistance in an unforeseen emergency. Deletes the limitation on the countries for which the President can authorize the transfer of funds from one account to another to pay for arms sales to such countries. Sets the limitation on additions to stockpiles of defense articles for foreign countries for fiscal year 1982. Eliminates the requirement of specific Congressional authorization for the operation of a military assistance advisory group, military mission, or organization of U.S. military personnel in a foreign country. Authorizes the President to assign U.S. military personnel to foreign countries to perform necessary management and other functions related to international security assistance programs. Limits the number of such personnel assigned in each foreign country to the number justified to Congress unless specified Congressional committees are notified. Retains the provision making the Chief of the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in each foreign country responsible for supervising such military personnel. Exempts from numerical limitations military personnel performing certain services under the Arms Export Control Act. Expresses the sense of Congress that advising and training assistance in countries to which such personnel are assigned shall be provided by other personnel who are detailed for limited periods to perform specific tasks. Specifies the funds which will be charged with the costs of overseas management of international security assistance programs. Retains the provision which restricts encouragement by U.S. diplomatic and military personnel of military equipment purchases by foreign countries. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for international military education and training and for peacekeeping operations. Title II: Economic Support Fund and Other Programs - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for the Economic Support Fund. Requires a specified percentage of the funds allocated under the Commodity Import Program to be available only for financing the purchase of farm commodities produced in the United States. Authorizes obligating, as a special requirements fund, a specified amount of the funds appropriated for the Economic Support Fund. Requires specified congressional committees to be notified before the funds are obligated. Allots a minimum amount of the authorized economic support funds for such year for Israel and Egypt on a grant basis. Authorizes making such funds available to Israel as a cash transfer. Allots a specified amount of fiscal year 1982 economic support funds for: (1) Turkey; (2) Cyprus; (3) Costa Rica; (4) emergency use to promote economic or political stability; (5) Tunisia; (6) Pakistan; and (7) Poland. Prohibits making any such funds available to Syria. Repeals the provision relating to Central American economic support. Title III: Development Assistance - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for: (1) agricultural development programs; (2) participation in the International Fund for Agricultural Development; (3) voluntary population planning; (4) health programs; (5) education and human resources development, earmarking a specified amount for scholarships for disadvantaged South African students; (6) development of indigenous energy resources; (7) scientific and technological cooperation programs; and (8) promotion of human rights. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should support the efforts of developing countries to improve infant feeding practices. Authorizes spending a certain amount to help such countries develop programs to encourage improved infant feeding practices. Directs the President to report to Congress on how this support for improved infant feeding practices is implemented. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President, in order to further the purposes of participation in the International Fund for Agricultural Development, should: (1) instruct U.S. representatives to seek to limit the number of the Fund's professional staff; (2) instruct U.S. representatives to seek equity among contributors to the Fund; (3) encourage development of procedures to expedite Fund disbursements for projects; and (4) seek to assure that the U.S. contribution is disbursed in a manner related to the Fund's actual rate of disbursal. Prohibits using population planning and health program funds to pay for research related to use of abortions or involuntary sterilization as a means of family planning. Earmarks a specified amount of such funds for private voluntary organizations for carrying out public health activities. Authorizes the President to furnish aid for: (1) disaster preparedness programs; and (2) scientific and technological cooperation programs. Sets a minimum amount of international development appropriations for fiscal year 1982 to be spent on international programs which support the original goals of the U.N. Decade for Women. Directs the President to consider Congressional concerns about the loss of tropical forests in developing countries and the recommendations of the U.S. Interagency Task Force on Tropical Forests: (1) in carrying out programs with respect to developing countries; and (2) in seeking opportunities to coordinate development and investment activities which affect such forests. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct U.S. representatives to international organizations to urge that: (1) higher priority be given to the problems of tropical forest alteration and loss; and (2) there be improved cooperation among these organizations with respect to tropical forest activities. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for implementation of the Sahel development program. Prohibits disbursing such funds to a foreign government unless it is determined that the foreign government will maintain adequate records of the receipt and expenditure of such funds. Sets a minimum amount of funds authorized for specified international development programs which must be made available to private voluntary organizations. Authorizes U.S. participation in the International Food Policy Research Institute. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for international organizations and programs. Earmarks a specified percentage of such funds for the U.N. Children's Fund, the U.N. Development Fund, and the U.N. Environmental Program. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for trade and development programs. Extends authorization for worldwide housing guarantees until September 30, 1983. Establishes a revolving fund in the U.S. Treasury as the depository fund for all income derived from such guarantees. Title IV: Other Assistance Programs - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for: (1) American schools and hospitals abroad; (2) international disaster assistance; and (3) international narcotics control. Deletes the prohibition against the use of international narcotics control funds to pay for herbicide spraying to eradicate marihuana. Directs the Secretary of State to inform the Secretary of Health and Human Services if herbicide is going to be used on marihuana. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to monitor the impact on marihuana users of such herbicide spraying and to report to Congress if such users are exposed to harmful amounts of herbicide. Earmarks a specified amount of such funds to develop a substance which warns users that marihuana has been sprayed with paraquat. Requires such a substance, if developed, to be used with the herbicide paraquat. Title V: Peace Corps - Peace Corps Autonomy Act - Makes the Peace Corps an independent agency within the Executive branch. Transfers to the Director of the Peace Corps all functions relating to the Peace Corps which were vested in the Director of the ACTION agency. Provides for the transfer of personnel, contracts, property records, and funds used primarily by the Peace Corps to the Peace Corps. Prohibits the transfer of personnel from causing a loss of employee benefits for such personnel for a specified period of time. Requires transferred personnel to be assigned to functions and units related to their assignments before enactment. Requires collective bargaining agreements covering Peace Corps personnel or transferred personnel to continue to be recognized by the Peace Corps. Requires each person employed primarily in connection with any function relating to the Peace Corps who does not hold a Foreign Service appointment to be appointed a member of the Foreign Service, except that: (1) for three years no person currently holding a career or career-conditional appointment shall be appointed a member of the Foreign Service without such person's consent; and (2) each transferred person who held an appointment below a specified grade level shall be appointed a member of the Foreign Service for the duration of operations under the Peace Corps Act (thus, not subject to such Act's five-year appointment limitation). Authorizes the President to delegate the authority to carry out the Peace Corps Act only to the Director of the Peace Corps. Amends such Act to delete certain provisions relating to readjustment allowance payments to Peace Corps volunteers. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Comptroller General to submit reports to the appropriate congressional committees on the implementation of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for the Peace Corps for fiscal year 1982. Requires the Peace Corps to give particular attention to programs which tend to integrate disabled people into developing countries' national economies. Removes present malpractice protection for Peace Corps volunteers. Applies the malpractice protection currently covering State Department personnel to Peace Corps volunteers and personnel. Removes the applicability of the Mutual Defense Control Act of 1951 to the functions of the Peace Corps. Deletes the limitation on the readjustment allowance for Peach Corps volunteers. Title VI: Food for Peace Programs - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development Act of 1954 to repeal certain obsolete foreign currency provisions. Repeals provisions relating to ocean transportation costs and the minimum allocation of foreign currencies for self-help measures. Increases the annual limit on the amount of foreign currencies generated by the sale of farm commodities which can be used to meet emergency relief requirements. Authorizes the President, in considering the extent to which a recipient country is using self-help measures, to consider such country's efforts to reduce illiteracy among the rural poor and to improve the health of the rural poor. Requires that the economic development and self-help measures set forth in an agreement for the sale of farm commodities for foreign currencies shall be described specifically and in a manner that ensures that needy people will be the major beneficiaries of such measures. Directs the President to assure that such measures are in addition to measures the recipient country is otherwise undertaking. Directs the President to determine whether such measures are being fully carried out. Title VII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for operating expenses of international development programs for fiscal year 1982. Makes permanent the exemption from limitations on U.S. assistance for construction of production enterprises in Egypt. Authorizes compensation rates for non-Foreign Service personnel assigned outside the United States. Entitles U.S. special mission deputies to compensation. Sets forth the material which must be contained in a notification to Congress of changes in foreign assistance programs. Abolishes the U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency (IDCA). Transfers the functions of the IDCA to specified agencies and officials. Transfers the personnel, property, and funds of IDCA to the Agency for International Development. Provides for the continuation of suits commenced before such transfer. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to transfer from the Director of IDCA to the Administrator of the agency primarily responsible for international development the responsibility to encourage private and voluntary organizations to deal with world hunger problems. Authorizes the obligation of funds for military and economic assistance under specified Federal laws for El Salvador only if the President makes a specified semi-annual certification to Congress. Requires such certification to also certify that El Salvador's government, to the extent not precluded by forces outside its control, is: (1) making an effort to control gross violations of internationally recognized human rights; (2) moving to achieve control over its armed forces; (3) making progress in implementing essential economic and political reforms; (4) committed to holding free elections; and (5) demonstrating its willingness to negotiate a political resolution of the conflict. Directs the President, if such certification is not made, to: (1) suspend specified military assistance and training for El Salvador; (2) withhold approvals for use of certain credits and guarantees for El Salvador; (3) suspend deliveries of certain defense articles and services; and (4) withdraw from El Salvador all U.S. armed forces performing specified functions. Directs the President, upon making such certification to certify also that El Salvador's government has made good faith efforts to investigate the murders of six U.S. citizens in El Salvador and to bring those responsible for the murders to justice. Repeals the prohibition against the granting of certain military and economic assistance to or for Argentina. Authorizes such aid if the President submits to Congress a report certifying that: (1) Argentina has made significant progress in complying with internationally recognized principles of human rights; and (2) the provision of such assistance is in the U.S. national interest. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to repeal the prohibition against aid to military or paramilitary operations in Angola. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to consolidate reports required under such Act within the President's annual estimate and justification for arms sales. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to consolidate within the President's annual report to Congress on foreign assistance various reports which are currently required. Repeals specified provisions of the following acts: (1) Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (including prohibitions against foreign assistance to Communist dominated or controlled countries and against assistance to countries preparing for aggressive military efforts); (2) International Development Cooperation Act of 1980 (including restriction on aid to El Salvador); (3) International Development Cooperation Act of 1979; (4) Special International Security Assistance Act of 1979; (5) International Development and Food Assistance Acts of 1975, 1977, and 1978; (6) Foreign Assistance Acts of 1973 and 1974; (7) Arms Export Control Act; (8) International Security Assistance Acts of 1977, 1978, and 1979; (9) International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976; and (10) Foreign Military Sales Act Amendments. Authorizes the President to waive for Pakistan the prohibition against aiding countries that receive or transfer nuclear enrichment materials. Limits such authorized waiver for a specified period of time. Directs the President to report to Congress on proposed aid to Pakistan and on the President's nonproliferation policy. Directs the President to report annually to Congress on Pakistan's nuclear program. Prohibits the President from using a specified waiver permitting the provision of assistance to a nonnuclear weapons country which transfers nuclear reprocessing materials if such country detonates a nuclear device. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should continue to: (1) support diplomatic efforts to resolve the current crisis in Lebanon; and (2) pursue a policy in Lebanon guided by specified principles. Earmarks a specified amount of Middle East program funds for Lebanon relief programs. Expresses the sense of Congress that certain foreign assistance funds should be used for programs in Haiti which would ameliorate the conditions that contribute to Haitian emigration and which would help Haiti to deal with illegal emigration. States that, to the maximum extent possible, development assistance for Haiti for fiscal year 1982 should be provided through private and voluntary organizations. Authorizes approval of the use of foreign assistance funds under specified Acts for Haiti only if the President makes specified determinations concerning Haiti's actions to halt illegal emigration, its implementation of development assistance programs, and its human rights practices. Directs the President to report to Congress on such activities. Authorizes using foreign assistance funds to help in halting illegal emigration from Haiti to the United States. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) a strong commitment to defending human rights should continue to be a central feature of American foreign policy; and (2) the President should nominate someone to be Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. Expresses the sense of the Congress that plans for future foreign assistance programs should be reviewed. Requests the President to report to Congress on the President's approach to foreign assistance. Requires such report to include an analysis of specified issues. Sets forth the extent to which funds appropriated to carry out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Arms Export Control Act may be deobligated. Expresses the sense of the Congress that it welcomes Argentina's actions to adjudicate the cases of those detained by the Government. Expresses the hope that progress will continue especially with regard to: (1) those Argentinians listed as disappeared who have died; and (2) those prisoners who have neither been released nor tried. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President, acting through the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, should undertake a diplomatic initiative to obtain payment by the Soviet Union of its outstanding debts to the United Nations. Condemns the use of, or the provision for use of, toxins or biological or chemical agents against the peoples of Laos, Kampuchea (Cambodia), and Afghanistan. States that the President, acting through the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations or other appropriate diplomatic agents, should seek measures to end actions by any party or government in using or providing such materials against such peoples. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should seek an explanation from the Soviet Union regarding the evidence of its use of or provision of such materials against such peoples. Earmarks a specified amount of fiscal year 1982 development assistance and economic support funds for Nicaragua if all the funds are used to assist only the private sector. Lifts such limitation on the use of the funds when the President reports to Congress that Nicaragua is making substantial progress toward free and fair elections. Directs the President to give Congress a semiannual accounting of all such funds sent to Nicaragua. Condemns Libya for: (1) supporting international terrorist movements; (2) obstructing positive movement towards peace in the Middle East; and (3) destabilizing neighboring African states. States that Congress believes the President should report to Congress on steps the United States could take to pressure Libya. Directs the President to consider, before deciding on providing foreign aid to a country, whether that country has dissociated itself from the communique issued after the 1981 Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Heads of Delegations of the Non-Alined Countries to the U.N. General Assembly. Directs the President to: (1) report to Congress on the countries that have dissociated themselves from the communique; and (2) send to Congress a copy of each statement of dissociation. Amends the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976 to repeal the limitations on assistance, sales, and sales credits to Chile. Directs the President to report to Congress before furnishing certain economic and military aid to Chile under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms Export Control Act. Requires such report to certify that: (1) Chile has made significant progress in complying with internationally recognized principles of human rights; (2) the provision of such assistance is in the U.S. national interest; and (3) Chile is not aiding or abetting international terrorism. Expresses the sense of the Congress that Chile should take steps to bring to justice those persons indicted by a U.S. grand jury for the murders of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the spread of international terrorism threatens world peace and U.S. national security. States that the United States should try to ensure that no U.S. citizen acts in the service of terrorism or terrorists. Directs the President to report to Congress on current legislation and possible future legislation that can be used to prevent U.S. citizens from supporting terrorism or terrorists. Directs the President to report to Congress on the viewpoints of: (1) all major parties to the conflict in El Salvador and of their interest in a political settlement; and (2) certain other nations on a negotiated settlement. Directs the President, through appropriate means, to consult with representatives of the parties to the Salvadoran conflict, democratic governments of Latin America, and other governments regarding a settlement of the conflict. Makes the current restrictions on aid to El Salvador applicable to funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act. Directs the President to use Polish currencies obtained by a specified sale of surplus dairy products to serve U.S. interests in Poland. Requires the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act to be reduced by a specified amount. Requires each agency to limit the obligation or expenditure of such funds to meet such reduction.
International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981 - Title I: Military Sales and Related Programs - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to set a trigger price for transfers of defense equipment, articles, and services for which the President would be required to submit a certification to Congress before consenting to such transfer. Prohibits the President from consenting to transfers of defense equipment, articles, or services whose value exceeds such trigger price until a specified time after the certification has been submitted to Congress. Sets the same trigger price for requiring a certification by the President with respect to letters of offer to sell and applications for export licenses. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to set the same trigger price for requiring a certification by the President with respect to leasing defense property. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to make the President's consent to a transfer or sale of defense equipment, articles, and service to NATO, any NATO member, Japan, Australia, or New Zealand effective 15 days after submission of certification unless Congress adopts a concurrent resolution disapproving such transfer. Makes such consent effective immediately if an emergency exists. Provides for expedited consideration of such concurrent resolution. Requires the President to report to Congress within 48 hours of the existence of, or a change in status of, certain hostilities or terrorist acts (currently after the outbreak of significant hostilities) involving a country in which U.S. personnel are performing certain defense services. Requires such report to include: (1) the country's identity; (2) a description of such hostilities or terrorist acts; and (3) the number of U.S. armed forces and civilians who may be endangered (currently the report must also include their location, the nature of their activities, and the likelihood of their becoming endangered). Authorizes the President to reduce or waive charges for certain nonrecurring research and development costs involved in producing defense articles and equipment which would advance standardization of U.S. armed forces with the armed forces of Japan, Australia, or New Zealand or would advance foreign procurement in the United States. Authorizes appropriations for the military sales credit and guarantee program for fiscal year 1982. Sets the ceiling for fiscal year 1982 on: (1) foreign military sales credits; and (2) foreign military sales loan guarantees. Releases borrowers of such credits from their liability to repay the U.S. government. Allots a specified amount of such credits and loan guarantees for Israel. Deletes the provision which allotted a specified amount for relocating Israeli forces from the Sinai. Obligates foreign military sales credit and guarantee funds for fiscal year 1982 to finance procurement of defense articles and services by Israel. Provides repayment terms for loans to specified countries under the foreign military sales loan guarantee program. Repeals the provision which exempts from the export license requirement the sale of certain defense equipment to specified military allies. Repeals the provision which requires timely reporting to the Secretary of State of contributions paid by any person in connection with sales of defense articles or services. Authorizes the President to restrict such contributions. Includes extraordinary expenses in charges for administrative expenses for foreign military sales. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to establish a Special Defense Acquisition Fund and to acquire with such Fund defense articles and services in anticipation of their transfer to eligible foreign countries and international organizations. Requires acquisitions of short supply items to be emphasized when compatible with security assistance requirements. Sets forth the sources of the Fund's moneys. Limits the size of the Fund. Directs the President to estimate annually for Congress the likely procurements to be made through the Fund. Prohibits the transfer of any defense articles or services acquired by such Fund to any foreign country or international organization unless authorized by such Act or the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Authorizes the temporary use of such defense articles and services by U.S. armed forces prior to their transfer. Authorizes the use of such Fund to pay for the costs related to the acquisition and transfer of such defense articles and services. Authorizes the President to lease in stock defense articles to an eligible foreign country or international organization if: (1) the President determines there are compelling foreign policy and national security reasons for leasing rather than selling such articles; (2) the President determines the articles are not presently needed for public use; and (3) the foreign country or international organization has agreed to pay all costs incurred in leasing such articles. Limits each lease agreement to five-years duration. Requires each lease to provide that the President may terminate the lease and require immediate return of the leased articles. Authorizes loans for leases of such defense articles. Directs the President to submit a notification to Congress before entering into or renewing such a lease or loan. Authorizes the waiver of such notification if the President reports to Congress that an emergency exists. Prohibits any lease or loan of defense equipment of articles valued at or above specified amounts if Congress objects to the proposed lease on loan by adopting a concurrent resolution. Exempts such loans or leases to NATO, any NATO member, Japan, Australia, or New Zealand from such legislative review. Applies laws restricting the countries or organizations to which arms sales may be made to leases of defense articles under this Act. Makes the Secretary of State responsible for the supervision and general direction of such leases. Requires such leases to meet the same prerequisites for consent by the President as sales of such articles or services. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require loan agreements covering defense articles to provide for restoration or replacement of loaned defense articles which are damaged, lost, or destroyed. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to repeal the provision relating to leasing defense property. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to eliminate the requirement that the President include in the quarterly report to Congress on military exports a listing of all property valued at $1,000,000 or more which was leased to a foreign government for more than six months. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for military assistance. Increases the aggregate value of defense material which the President can order for military assistance in an unforeseen emergency. Sets the limitation on additions to stockpiles of defense articles for foreign countries for fiscal year 1982. Eliminates the requirement of specific Congressional authorization for the operation of a military assistance advisory group, military mission, or organization of U.S. military personnel in a foreign country. Authorizes the President to assign U.S. military personnel to foreign countries to perform necessary management and other functions related to international security assistance programs. Limits the number of such personnel assigned in each foreign country to the number justified to Congress unless specified Congressional committees are notified. Retains the provision making the Chief of the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in each foreign country responsible for supervising such military personnel. Exempts from numerical limitations military personnel performing certain services under the Arms Export Control Act. Expresses the sense of Congress that advising and training assistance in countries to which such personnel are assigned shall be provided by other personnel who are detailed for limited periods to perform specific tasks. Specifies the funds which will be charged with the costs of overseas management of international security assistance programs. Retains the provision which restricts encouragement by U.S. diplomatic and military personnel of military equipment purchases by foreign countries. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for international military education and training and for peacekeeping operations. Title II: Economic Support Fund and Other Programs - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for the Economic Support Fund. Allots a minimum amount of the authorized economic support funds for such year for Israel and Egypt on a grant basis. Authorizes making such funds available to Israel as a cash transfer. Allots a specified amount of fiscal year 1982 economic support funds for: (1) Turkey; (2) Cyprus; (3) emergency use to promote economic or political stability; (4) Tunisia; and (5) Pakistan. Prohibits making any such funds available to Syria. Repeals the provision relating to Central American economic support. Title III: Development Assistance - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for: (1) agricultural development programs; (2) participation in the International Fund for Agricultural Development; (3) voluntary population planning; (4) health programs; (5) education and human resources development, earmarking a specified amount for scholarships for disadvantaged South African students; (6) development of indigenous energy resources (7) scientific and technological cooperation programs; and (8) promotion of human rights. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President, in order to further the purposes of participation in the International Fund for Agricultural Development, should: (1) instruct U.S. representatives to seek to limit the number of the Fund's professional staff; (2) instruct U.S. representatives to seek equity among contributors to the Fund; (3) encourage development of procedures to expedite Fund disbursements for projects; and (4) seek to assure that the U.S. contribution is disbursed in a manner related to the Fund's actual rate of disbursal. Prohibits using population planning and health program funds to pay for research related to use of abortions or involuntary sterilization as a means of family planning. Earmarks a specified amount of such funds for private voluntary organizations for carrying out public health activities. Authorizes the President to furnish aid for: (1) disaster preparedness programs; and (2) scientific and technological cooperation programs. Sets a minimum amount of international development appropriations for fiscal year 1982 to be spent on international programs which support the original goals of the U.N. Decade for Women. Directs the President to consider Congressional concerns about the loss of tropical forests in developing countries and the recommendations of the U.S. Interagency Task Force on Tropical Forests: (1) in carrying out programs with respect to developing countries; and (2) in seeking opportunities to coordinate development and investment activities which affect such forests. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct U.S. representatives to international organizations to urge that: (1) higher priority be given to the problems of tropical forest alteration and loss; and (2) there be improved cooperation among these organizations with respect to tropical forest activities. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for implementation of the Sahel development program. Sets a minimum amount of funds authorized for specified international development programs which must be made available to private voluntary organizations. Authorizes U.S. participation in the International Food Policy Research Institute. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for: (1) international organizations and programs and (2) trade and development programs. Extends authorization for worldwide housing guarantees until September 30, 1983. Establishes a revolving fund in the U.S. Treasury as the depository fund for all income derived from such guarantees. Title IV: Other Assistance Programs - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for: (1) American schools and hospitals abroad; (2) international disaster assistance; and (3) international narcotics control. Deletes the prohibition against the use of international narcotics control funds to pay for herbicide spraying to eradicate marihuana. Directs the Secretary of State to inform the Secretary of Health and Human Services if herbicide is going to be used on marihuana. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to monitor the impact on marihuana users of such herbicide spraying and to report to Congress if such users are exposed to harmful amounts of herbicide. Earmarks a specified amount of such funds to develop a substance which warns users that marihuana has been sprayed with paraquat. Requires such a substance, if developed, to be used with the herbicide paraquat. Title V: Overseas Private Investment Corporation - Increases the maximum per capita income which qualifies a less developed country for preferential consideration by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). Increases the minimum per capita income level in a country at which OPIC must restrict its activities. Directs OPIC to support developmental projects having trade benefits for the United States. Directs OPIC to refuse to insure, reinsure, or finance any investment subject to conditions which would tend to reduce significantly the positive trade benefits to the United States. Increases the number of members of OPIC's Board of Directors. Authorizes OPIC to insure approved projects against the risks of civil strife. Limits OPIC's share of insurance liability for multilateral investments to the proportionate participation of eligible investors in the projects. Directs OPIC to report to the appropriate Congressional committees before issuing civil strife insurance for the first time and before issuing insurance in which the risk to be insured is significantly enlarged. Limits the amount of investment insurance and guaranties issued to a single investor to a certain percentage of the maximum contingent liability of such insurance and guaranties which OPIC is permitted to have outstanding. Deletes the prohibition against OPIC entering certain direct insurance underwriting agreements with other insurance companies. Deletes the limitation on the amount of OPIC's annual reinsurance liabilities. Extends the authority of OPIC to issue investment insurance and guaranties until September, 1985. Authorizes loans from the Direct Investment Fund to the extent amounts are appropriated. Authorizes computation of a claim of loss under equity investment insurance on the basis of net book value attributable to such equity investment on the date of loss. Abolishes the provision which permits a State to prohibit OPIC from requiring an investor to be insured for ten percent of an investment otherwise insured by OPIC. Authorizes OPIC to collect or compromise any obligations assigned to or held by it. Authorizes the Inspector General (formerly the Auditor-General) of the Agency for International Development to review, investigate, and inspect OPIC's activities. Abolishes: (1) OPIC's Advisory Council; (2) certain limitations on OPIC's financial support for new or expanded copper exploration or extraction projects; and (3) the prohibitions on OPIC financial support for projects involving production or processing of palm oil, sugar, or citrus crops for export. Title VI: Peace Corps - Peace Corps Autonomy Act - Makes the Peace Corps an independent agency within the Executive branch. Transfers to the Director of the Peace Corps all functions relating to the Peace Corps which were vested in the Director of the ACTION agency. Provides for the transfer of personnel, contracts, property records, and funds used primarily by the Peace Corps to the Peace Corps. Prohibits the transfer of personnel from causing a loss of employee benefits for such personnel for a specified period of time. Requires transferred personnel to be assigned to functions and units related to their assignments before enactment. Requires collective bargaining agreements covering Peace Corps personnel or transferred personnel to continue to be recognized by the Peace Corps. Requires each person employed primarily in connection with any function relating to the Peace Corps who does not hold a Foreign Service appointment to be appointed a member of the Foreign Service, except that: (1) for three years no person currently holding a career or career-conditional appointment shall be appointed a member of the Foreign Service without such person's consent; and (2) each transferred person who held an appointment below a specified grade level shall be appointed a member of the Foreign Service for the duration of operations under the Peace Corps Act (thus, not subject to such Act's five-year appointment limitation). Authorizes the President to delegate the authority to carry out the Peace Corps Act only to the Director of the Peace Corps. Amends such Act to delete certain provisions relating to readjustment allowance payments to Peace Corps volunteers. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Comptroller General to submit reports to the appropriate Congressional committees on the implementation of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for the Peace Corps for fiscal year 1982. Requires the Peace Corps to give particular attention to programs which tend to integrate disabled people into developing countries' national economies. Removes present malpractice protection for Peace Corps volunteers. Applies the malpractice protection currently covering State Department personnel to Peace Corps volunteers and personnel. Removes the applicability of the Mutual Defense Control Act of 1951 to the functions of the Peace Corps. Title VII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for operating expenses of international development programs for fiscal year 1982. Makes permanent the exemption from limitations on U.S. assistance for construction of production enterprises in Egypt. Authorizes compensation rates for non-Foreign Service personnel assigned outside the United States. Entitles U.S. special mission deputies to compensation. Sets forth the material which must be contained in a notification to Congress of changes in foreign assistance programs. Transfers the functions of the Director of the U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency (IDCA) to specified agencies and officials. Transfers the personnel, property, and funds of IDCA to AID. Provides for the continuation of suits commenced before such transfer. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to transfer from the Director of IDCA to the Administrator of the agency primarily responsible for international development the responsibility to encourage private and voluntary organizations to deal with world hunger problems. Authorizes the obligation of funds for military and economic assistance under specified Federal laws for El Salvador, only if prior to each such grant of assistance the President certifies to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that El Salvador's Government: (1) is making progress in controlling violations of internationally recognized human rights; (2) is moving to achieve control over its armed forces; (3) is making progress in implementing essential economic and political reforms; (4) is committed to holding free elections; and (5) has demonstrated its willingness to negotiate a political resolution of the conflict. Directs the President, if such certification is not made or if such certification is made but does not take effect, to: (1) suspend specified military assistance and military education and training for El Salvador; (2) withhold approvals for use of certain credits and guarantees for El Salvador; (3) suspend deliveries of certain defense articles, defense services, and design and construction services; and (4) withdraw from El Salvador all U.S. armed forces performing specified functions. Prohibits the President from making such certification until the President also certifies that El Salvador's government has made good faith efforts to investigate the murders of six U.S. citizens in El Salvador and to bring those responsible for the murders to justice. Repeals the prohibition against the granting of certain military and economic assistance to or for Argentina. Authorizes such aid if the President submits to Congress a report certifying that: (1) Argentina has made significant progress in complying with internationally recognized principles of human rights; and (2) the provision of such assistance is in the U.S. national interest. Sets forth matters to be considered in determining whether significant progress is being made in complying with human rights principles. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to repeal the prohibition against aid to military or paramilitary operations in Angola. Requires the President to submit to the appropriate Congressional committees a report including specified information before furnishing assistance to such operations in Angola. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to consolidate reports required under such Act within the President's annual estimate and justification for arms sales. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to consolidate within the President's annual report to Congress on foreign assistance of various reports which are currently required. Repeals specified provisions of the following Acts: (1) Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (including prohibitions against foreign assistance to Communist dominated or controlled countries and against assistance to countries preparing for aggressive military efforts); (2) International Development Cooperation Act of 1980 (including restriction on aid to El Salvador); (3) International Development Cooperation Act of 1979; (4) Special International Security Assistance Act of 1979; (5) International Development and Food Assistance Acts of 1975, 1977, and 1978; (6) Foreign Assistance Acts of 1973 and 1974; (7) Arms Export Control Act; (8) International Security Assistance Acts of 1977, 1978, and 1979; (9) International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976; and (10) Foreign Military Sales Act Amendments. Authorizes the President to waive for Pakistan the prohibition against aiding countries that receive or transfer nuclear enrichment materials. Directs the President to report to Congress on proposed aid to Pakistan. States that the President should not use a specified waiver permitting the provision of assistance to a country which transfers nuclear reprocessing materials if such country detonates a nuclear device. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should continue its efforts to: (1) end the strife in Lebanon and urge others to exert their influence to end Lebanon's turmoil; and (2) strengthen the authority and ability of the Lebanese Central Government.
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Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 97-113.
Became Public Law No: 97-113.
Measure Signed in Senate.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Called up by House by Special Order.
Conference report agreed to in House: House Agreed to Conference Report by Voice Vote.
House Agreed to Conference Report by Voice Vote.
Conference report filed: Conference Report 97-413 Filed in House.
Conference Report 97-413 Filed in House.
Conference report considered in Senate.
Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 57-42. Record Vote No: 490.
Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 57-42. Record Vote No: 490.
Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate disagreed to House amendments by Voice Vote.
Senate disagreed to House amendments by Voice Vote.
Senate agreed to request for conference. Appointed conferees. Percy; Helms; Hayakawa; Lugar; Mathias; Pell; Biden; Glenn; Sarbanes. For the consideration of all provisions except title VIof the Senate bill and title IV of the House amendment (relating to the Food for Peace Program, Public Law 480).
Senate appointed conferee Cranston in lieu of Mr. Biden as an additional conferee solely for the consideration of those provisions dealing with the Peace Corps.
Senate appointed conferee Kassebaum that Mrs. Kassebaum be a substitute for Mr. Mathias at the meeting of the Conference today, Friday, Dec. 11, 1981.
Senate appointed conferee Helms; Dole; Hayakawa; Lugar; Huddleston; Leahy; Zorinsky for the consideration of title VI of the Senate bill and title IV of the House amendment (relating to the Food for Peace Program, Public Law 480).
Conference committee actions: Conference held.
Conference held.
Called up by House by Rule.
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Resolving differences -- House actions: House Insisted on its Amendments by Voice Vote.
House Insisted on its Amendments by Voice Vote.
House Requested a Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Zablocki, Fascell, Hamilton, Bingham, Solarz, Bonker, Mica, Barnes, Wolpe, Bowen, Broomfield, Derwinski, Findley, Winn, Lagomarsino.
Considered by Senate.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments and an amendment to the Title by Yea-Nay Vote. 40-33. Record Vote No: 330.
Passed Senate with amendments and an amendment to the Title by Yea-Nay Vote. 40-33. Record Vote No: 330.
Considered by Senate.
Considered by Senate.
Returned to the Calendar. Calendar No. 108.
Considered by Senate.
Considered by Senate.
Motion to reconsider the vote by which SP563 was rejected tabled by Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 52-46. Record Vote No: 279.
Considered by Senate.
Introduced in Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Percy under the authority of the order of May 13, 81. With written report No. 97-83.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Percy under the authority of the order of May 13, 81. With written report No. 97-83.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Regular Orders. Calendar No. 108.
Committee on Foreign Relations ordered to be reported an original measure.
Committee on Foreign Relations incorporated provisions of related measures S. 976, S. 848, S. 993, S. 785, S. 786, S. 728, S. 869, S. 1015 in reported measure.
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