§2295b Authorities relating to assistance and other provisions

Summary

Allows aid to go to governments or to nongovernmental groups. Technical help should be long-term, on-site, and focus on practical management and problem-solving, with advice on private business often coming from U.S. business volunteers. It can fund enterprise funds for the independent states of the former Soviet Union if the President decides; when used that way, the rules in section 201 of the SEED Act of 1989 apply (except its money-authorization part). It can support cooperative development projects with other countries and those independent states. To help strengthen justice systems in those states, the President may use the same powers found in section 2346c, except for subsection (c) and the last two sentences of subsection (e). Funds already set aside under part 4 of subchapter II may be used here. The President may let SEED-authorized U.S. agencies use their international funds and administrative powers more widely. Money for this aid may buy goods in the United States, the independent states, or a developing country. Buying from other countries is allowed only if the items are not available in those places or the President finds it needed for emergencies or efficiency. The President sets the terms for aid, consistent with law, except that fiscal year 1993 funds used here may ignore other laws except: this part; section 2394–1 and similar notification rules in the annual foreign operations Act; sections 2799aa and 2799aa–1 and sections 5604 and 5605 when they apply to aid to governments; and section 1341 of title 31 plus the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990. A prohibition like section 510 of the 1991 foreign operations appropriations act on financing nuclear exports does not apply to these funds. “Appropriate congressional committees” means the House Committees on Foreign Affairs and Appropriations and the Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Appropriations. “Independent states of the former Soviet Union” is defined in section 5801. “Nonmarket based trade” and “Cuban Government” are defined for the purposes in this part, with “Cuban Government” including its subdivisions and agencies, and “agency or instrumentality” defined by 28 U.S.C. 1603(b) treating “foreign state” as “Cuba.”