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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1982

PUBLIC LAW 97-377—DEC. 21, 1982 markets and if the assistance will cause substantial injury to United States producers of the same, similar, or competing commodity. SEC. 132. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint resolution, none of the funds appropriated or made available (other than funds for "Operating expenses of the Agency for International Development") pursuant to this Act for carrying out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, may be used to finance the operating expenses of the Agency for International Development, except that funds contained in deferral numbered D83-1 shall be used for operating expenses of the Agency for International Development. SEC. 133. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint resolution, none of the funds appropriated under section 101(b) of this joint resolution may be available for any country during any 3-month period beginning on or after October 1, 1982, immediately following the certification of the President to the Congress that such country is not taking adequate steps to cooperate with the United States to prevent narcotic drugs and other controlled substances (as listed in the schedules in section 202 of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse and Prevention Control Act of 1971 (21 U.S.C. 812)) which are produced, processed, or transported in such country from entering the United States unlawfully. SEC. 134. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint resolution, of the new obligational authority appropriated under section 101(b) to carry out the provisions of sections 103 through 106 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, not less than 30 percent shall be available for loans for the fiscal year 1983 (funds for such loans shall remain available for obligation until September 30, 1984): Provided, That loans made pursuant to this authority to countries whose annual per capita gross national product is greater than $795 but less than $1,285 shall be repayable within twenty-five years following the date on which funds are initially made available under such loans and loans to countries whose annual per capita gross national product is greater than or equal to $1,285 shall be repayable within twenty years following the date on which funds are initially made available under such loans. SEC. 135. Payments required by section 4 of Public Law 97-346 with respect to the Vice President, Senators, and officers and employees of the Senate shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate out of the account in such fund for "Miscellaneous Items". SEC. 136. Any commuter authority operating commuter service transferred from the Consolidated Rail Corporation under part 2 of the Northeast Rail Service Act of 1981 shall be subject to applicable laws with respect to such service. SEC. 137. Conrail employees who are deprived of employment by assumption or discontinuance of intercity passenger service by Amtrak shall hereafter be eligible for employee protection benefits under section 701 of the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 (45 U.S.C. 797), notwithstanding any other provision of law, agreement, or arrangement, and notwithstanding the inability of such employees otherwise to meet the eligibility requirements of such section. Such protection shall be the exclusive protection applicable to Conrail employees deprived of employment or adversely affected by any such assumption or discontinuance. SEC. 138. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint resolution, the provisions of section 616 of H.R. 7158, the Tresisury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriation Act, 1983,

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