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PUBLIC LAW 98-000—MMMM. DD, 1984

PUBLIC LAW 98-332—JULY 2, 1984

98 STAT. 287

SEC. 104. Deferral No. D84-50, submitted to the Congress on Cumberland Gap February 22, 1984, to defer $14,000,000 in funds provided in Public J^"gJ|[ ^^g Law 98-146 for construction of the Cumberland Gap Tunnel and related activities, is hereby disapproved. COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION EXPORT CREDIT GUARANTEES

SEC. 106. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall utilize the authorities provided in the Charter of the Commodity Credit Corporation to expand the export of United States agricultural commodities through competitive sales, including shipping costs and credit terms, and donations as authorized by law. In carrying out the authorities and responsibilities imposed by the Charter, the Secretary shall assist in the financing of export sales of United States agricultural products, either through direct or guaranteed loans. The Secretary shall use the Commodity Credit Corporation, a revolving fund capitalized at $25,000,000,000, to make available under the export credit program carried out by the Corporation short-term credit to finance export sales of United States agricultural commodities, and shall also use such other authorities as necessary to regain the rightful share of world markets for United States agricultural commodities. (b) For the fiscal year ending September 30, 1985, the Secretary of Agriculture shall make available under the Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102) carried out by the Commodity Credit Corporation credit guarantees for not less than $5,000,000,000 in short-term credit extended to finance export sales of United States agricultural commodities. (c) The Secretary shall ensure that any guarantee authority made available, in the fiscal years ending September 30, 1984, and September 30, 1985, for credit guarantees under the Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102) carried out by the Commodity Credit Corporation in excess of— (1) the $4,000,000,000 of guarantee authority available for fiscal year ending September 30, 1984, and (2) the level of guarantee authority contained in the President's budget for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1985. is used to further assist in the development, maintenance, and expansion of international markets for United States agricultural commodities and products, including natural fiber textiles and yarns. Priority in the allocation of such guarantee authority shall be given to credit guarantees that facilitate the financing of (i) export sales to countries that have demonstrated the greatest repayment capability under the export credit programs carried out by the Commodity Credit Corporation or (ii) export sales of commodities for which no blended credit (under which a combination of export credit guarantees under the GSM-102 program and direct export credits under the GSM-5 program is provided) will be made available. SEC. 108. Within 120 days of the enactment of this legislation, the President shall transmit to Congress a classified and unclassified version of a report on the whereabouts of military equipment transferred since 1980 from the United States to the Government of El Salvador, and the whereabouts of Salvadoran military personnel trained with United States military aid funds. SEC. 109. If at any time following the appropriation of funds herein the duly elected President of El Salvador should be prevented from taking office by military force or military decree or after taking office shall be deposed by military force or military decree.

El Salvador. President of U.S., report.

El Salvador.