Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 108 Part 2.djvu/934

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108 STAT. 1650 PUBLIC LAW 103-306—AUG. 23, 1994 WITHHOLDING OF ASSISTANCE FOR PARKING FINES OWED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES SEC. 564. (a) IN GENERAL.—Of the funds made available for a foreign country under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, an amount equivalent to 110 percent of the total unpaid fully adjudicated parking fines and penalties owed to the District of Columbia by such country as of the date of enactment of this Act shall be withheld from obligation for such country until the Secretary of State certifies and reports in writing to the appropriate congressional committees that such fines and penalties are fully paid to the government of the District of Columbia. (b) DEFINITION. —For purposes of this section, the term "appropriate congressional committees" means the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE FOR THE PLO FOR THE WEST BANK AND GAZA SEC. 565. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be obligated for assistance for the Palestine Liberation Organization for the West Bank and Gaza unless the President has exercised the authority under section 583(a) of the Middle East Peace Facilitation Act of 1994 (part E of title V of Public Law 103-236) or any other legislation to suspend or make inapplicable section 307 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and that suspension is still in effect: Provided, That if the President fails to make the certification under section 583(b)(2) of the Middle East Peace Facilitation Act or to suspend the prohibition under other legislation, funds appropriated by this Act may not be obligated for assistance for the Palestine Liberation Organization for the West Bank and Gaza. FACILITATE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST SEC. 565A. ADDITIONAL CONGRESSIONAL EXPECTATION.— Section Ante, p. 488. 583(b)(5) of the Middle East Peace Facilitation Act is amended— (1) by striking "and" at the end of subparagraph (C); (2) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (D) and inserting "; and"; and (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: "(E) amending its National Covenant to eliminate all references calling for the destruction of Israel.". PROCUREMENT REDUCTION SEC. 566. (a) Of the budgetary resources available to the Agency for International Development during fiscal year 1995, $1,598,000 are permanently canceled. (b) The Administrator of the Agency for International Development shall allocate the amount of budgetary resources canceled among the Agency's accounts available for procurement and procurement-related expenses. Amounts available for procurement and procurement-related expenses in each such account shall be reduced by the amount allocated to such account. (c) For the purposes of this section, the definition of "procurement" includes all stages of the process of acquiring property or services, beginning with the process of determining a need for