Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 118.djvu/3058

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118 STAT. 3028 PUBLIC LAW 108–447—DEC. 8, 2004 the United States pursuant to Article 98 of the Rome Statute preventing the International Criminal Court from proceeding against United States personnel present in such country. (d) The prohibition of this section shall not apply to countries otherwise eligible for assistance under the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003, notwithstanding section 606(a)(2)(B) of such Act. PROHIBITION AGAINST DIRECT FUNDING FOR SAUDI ARABIA SEC. 575. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or expended to finance any assistance to Saudi Arabia: Provided, That the Presi dent may waive the prohibition of this section if he certifies to the Committees on Appropriations, 15 days prior to the obligation of funds for assistance for Saudi Arabia, that Saudi Arabia is cooperating with efforts to combat international terrorism and that the proposed assistance will help facilitate that effort. ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMS SEC. 576. (a) FUNDING.—Of the funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Development Assistance’’, not less than $165,500,000 shall be made available for programs and activities which directly protect biodiversity, including forests, in developing countries, of which not less than $8,000,000 should be made available to implement a regional strategy for biodiversity conservation in the countries comprising the Amazon basin of South America, including to improve the capacity of indigenous communities and local law enforcement agencies to protect the biodiversity of indigenous reserves, which amount shall be in addition to the amounts requested for biodiversity activities in these countries in fiscal year 2005: Provided, That of the funds appropriated by this Act, not less than $180,000,000 shall be made available to support clean energy and other climate change policies and programs in devel oping countries, of which $100,000,000 should be made available to directly promote and deploy energy conservation, energy effi ciency, and renewable and clean energy technologies, and of which the balance should be made available to directly: (1) measure, monitor, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions; (2) increase carbon sequestration activities; and (3) enhance climate change mitigation and adaptation programs. (b) CLIMATE CHANGE REPORT.—Not later than 45 days after the date on which the President’s fiscal year 2006 budget request is submitted to Congress, the President shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations describing in detail the following— (1) all Federal agency obligations and expenditures, domestic and international, for climate change programs and activities in fiscal year 2005, including an accounting of expenditures by agency with each agency identifying climate change activities and associated costs by line item as presented in the President’s Budget Appendix; and (2) all fiscal year 2004 obligations and estimated expendi tures, fiscal year 2005 estimated expenditures and estimated obligations, and fiscal year 2006 requested funds by the United States Agency for International Development, by country and central program, for each of the following: (i) to promote the transfer and deployment of a wide range of United States President. President. Certification. Deadline.