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[75 Stat. 455]
PUBLIC LAW 87-000—MMMM. DD, 1961
[75 Stat. 455]

75 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 87-195-SEPT. 4, 1961

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(b) The functions authorized under part II may be performed without regard to such provisions as the President may specify of the joint resolution of November 4, 1939 (54 Stat. 4), as amended. (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 3544(b) and 8544 (b) of title 10 of the United States Code, personnel of the Department of Defense may be assigned or detailed to any civil office to carry out this Act. SEC. 634. REPORTS AND INFORMATION.—(a) The President shall, g^J/^P"'* *° ^°"while funds made available for the purposes of this Act remain available for obligation, transmit to the Congress after the close of each fiscal year a report concerning operations in that fiscal year under this Act. Each such report shall include information on the operation of the investment guaranty program. (b) The President shall, in the reports required by subsection (a) of this section, and in response to requests from Members of the Congress or inquiries from the public, make public all information concerning operations under this Act not deemed by him to be incompatible with the security of the United States. In the case of each loan made from the Development Loan Fund established pursuant to section 201(a) the President shall make public appropriate information about the loan, including information about the borrower, the nature of the activity being financed, and the economic development objectives being served by the loan. (c) None of the funds made available pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall be used to carry out any provision of this Act in any country or with respect to any project or activity, after the expiration of the thirty-five-day period which begins on the date the General Accounting Office or any committee of the Congress charged with considering legislation, appropriations or expenditures under this Act, has delivered to the office of the head of any agency carrying out such provision, a written request that it be furnished any document, paper, communication, audit, review, finding, recommendation, report, or other material in its custody or control relating to the administration of such provision in such country or with respect to such project or activity, unless and until there has been furnished to the General Accounting Office, or to such committee, as the case may be, (1) the document, paper, communication, audit, review, finding, recommendation, report, or other material so requested, or (2) a certification by the President that he has forbidden the furnishing thereof pursuant to request and his reason for so doing. Notif of (d) In January of each year, the President shall notify the Com c o n g r iec as ts ii o n a l on mittee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of committeea. the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of all actions taken during the preceding twelve months under this Act which resulted in furnishing assistance of a kind, for a purpose, or to

'n area, substantially different from that included in the presentation

to the Congress during its consideration of this Act or any Act appropriating funds pursuant to authorizations contained in this Act, or which resulted in obligations or reservations greater by 50 per centum or more than the proposed obligations or reservations included in such presentation for the program concerned, and in his notification the President shall state the justification for such changes. In addition, the President shall promptly notify the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of any determination under section 303, 610, 614(a), or 614(b). (e) The President shall include in his recommendations to the Con- tions to C o n g r e s s. ^, ^!^°II?"i!."'^^" gress for programs under this Act for each fiscal year a specific plan for each country receiving bilateral grant economic assistance