Congress: 97 · Status: passed · Israel/Palestine classification: bundled package
Sponsor: Rep. Long, Clarence D. [D-MD-2] (D-MD)
Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1982 - Title I: Multilateral Economic Assistance - Appropriates fiscal year 1982 funds to the President for the U.S. contributions to the: (1) Inter-American Development Bank; (2) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; (3) International Finance Corporation; (4) International Development Association; (5) Asian Development Bank and the Asian Development Fund; (6) African Development Fund; and (7) International Fund for Agricultural Development. Specifies the maximum amount of callable capital stock to which the U.S.Governors of such Banks may subscribe. Appropriates a specified sum for the United Nations Environmental Fund and for other international organizations and programs. Title II: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes fiscal year 1982 appropriations to carry out the provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 relating to: (1) agriculture, rural development, and nutrition; (2) voluntary population planning; (3) health programs; (4) education and human resources development (earmarking a specified amount for scholarships for South African students); (5) energy and selected development activities (earmarking a specified amount for resettlement services for refugees and displaced persons in Africa); (6) science and technology; (7) loan allocation (setting specified repayment periods based on a country's per capita gross national product); (8) American schools and hospitals abroad; (9) international disaster assistance; (10) the Sahel development program (earmarking a specified amount for the African Development Foundation); (11) payments to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (12) the Economic Support Fund (earmarking specified amounts to Egypt and to Israel and requiring congressional approval for obligating funds for the Special Requirements Fund); (13) peacekeeping operations; (14) the operating expenses of the Agency for International Development; (15) trade and development programs; and (16) international narcotics control. Makes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for the Inter-American Foundation and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), with limitations on OPIC's direct and guaranteed loans. Appropriates fiscal year 1982 funds to ACTION for the Peace Corps. Appropriates fiscal year 1982 funds to the Department of State for migration and refugee assistance (earmarking a specified sum for aiding displaced persons from El Salvador). Title III: Military Assistance - Appropriates fiscal year 1982 funds to the President for: (1) military assistance; (2) international military education and training; and (3) foreign military credit sales, with limitations on the amounts of direct and guaranteed loans. Title IV: Export-Import Bank of the United States - Authorizes, with specified exceptions, the Export-Import Bank to make expenditures without regard to fiscal year limitations. Prohibits expenditures, during the current fiscal year, for nuclear exports to any country, other than a nuclear weapons State, that has detonated a nuclear explosive after enactment of this Act. Limits, during specified fiscal years, the amounts of direct and guaranteed loans, administrative expenses, and entertainment allowances. Title V: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) financing construction of any water or related land resource development project which has not met specified standards; (2) pensions for persons who have served in the armed forces of any recipient country; (3) procurement contracts which do not permit termination for U.S. convenience; (4) dues of any member of the United Nations; (5) the transfer of appropriated funds among international lending organizations; (6) financing nuclear exports or providing nuclear training assistance to foreign nationals; (7) assisting countries to violate human rights; (8) assistance to Mozambique (unless it would further U.S. foreign policy interests), Angola, Cambodia, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, or Syria; (9) obligation under an appropriations account to which they were not appropriated, without prior congressional approval; (10) unauthorized publicity purposes within the United States; (11) obligation beyond the current fiscal year, unless otherwise permitted; (12) assistance to countries which are more than one year in default on loans payments to the United States; (13) international financial institutions which do not make available to the U.S. representatives information concerning loans or documents; (14) any government which aids or abets international terrorism; (15) assisting the production of commodities for export, if such commodities will likely be in surplus on world markets and will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers; and (16) the obligation of specified funds for programs not justified or in excess of the amount justified, without prior congressional notification. Limits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) obligation during the last month of availability; (2) official residence expenses, entertainment expenses, and representation allowances of the Agency for International Development; and (3) consulting services. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of specified international financial institutions to oppose assistance for the production of export commodities in surplus on world markets if such assistance will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers.