Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 106 Part 2.djvu/810

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106 STAT. 1690 PUBLIC LAW 102-391—OCT. 6, 1992 provisions of section 534 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, except that programs to enhance protection of participants in judicial cases may be conducted notwithstanding section 660 of that Act. (2) Notwithstanding section 660 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, up to $10,000,000 may be made available for technical assistance, training, and commodities with the objective of creating a professional civilian police force for Panama, and for programs to improve penal institutions and the rehabilitation of offenders in Panama (which programs may be conducted other than through multilateral or regional institutions), except that such technical assistance shall not include more than $5,000,000 for the procurement of equipment for law enforcement purposes, and shall not include lethal equipment. (b) Funds made available pursuant to this section may be made available notwithstanding the third sentence of section 534(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Funds made available pursuant to subsection (a)(1) for Bolivia, Colombia and Peru and subsection (a)(2) may be made available notwithstanding section 534(c) and the second sentence of section 534(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Reports. AUTHORITIES FOR THE PEACE CORPS, THE INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION AND THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION SEC 589. Unless expressly provided to the contrary, provisions of this or any other Act, including provisions contained in prior Acts authorizing or making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs, shall not be construed to prohibit activities authorized by or conducted under the Peace Corps Act, the Inter-American Foundation Act, or the African Development Foundation Act. The appropriate agency shall promptly report to the Committees on Appropriations whenever it is conducting activities or is proposing to conduct activities in a country for which assistance is prohibited. REPORT ON CREDIT PROGRAMS SEC. 590. The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study of each credit program within the international affairs (Budget Function 150) account, calculating for loans, guarantees and insurance commitments for each such credit program: (1) the probability of repa3mtient by each country of existing United States international loans and the probability of default by each country on existing United States international guarantees, (2) subsidy estimates for each country and each such credit program, and (3) risk assessments for each country within each such credit program for fiscal year 1994. The Secretaries of Treasury, State, Defense, and Agriculture, and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development, the Chairman of the Export-Import Bank, and the President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation shall provide the necessary information to support these analyses. This study shall be transmitted to the Committees on Appropriations and the Committees on the Budget not later than March 15, 1993.