International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981

International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981 - Title I: Development Assistance - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for: (1) agricultural development programs; (2) participation in the International Fund for Agricultural Development; (3) voluntary population planning programs; (4) health programs; and (5) education and human resources development. Authorizes assistance for foreign disaster preparedness programs. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for: (1) energy, private voluntary organizations, and selected development activities; (2) scientific and technological cooperation; (3) implementation of the Sahel Development Program; and (4) American schools and hospitals abroad. Eliminates references to a target figure and fiscal year for promotion of human rights. Authorizes U.S. participation in the International Fertilizer Development Center and the International Food Policy Research Institute. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for: (1) participation in international organizations and programs; (2) international disaster assistance; (3) trade and development; and (4) housing guaranty programs. Sets up a revolving fund in the U.S. Treasury for all fees derived from certain guaranty programs. Authorizes investment of such funds in U.S. obligations.

Title II: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for the operating expenses of the International Development Cooperation Agency and the Agency for International Development. Makes permanent the exemption from limitations on U.S. assistance of construction of productive enterprises in Egypt. Authorizes compensation rates for non-Foreign Service personnel assigned outside the United States. Entitles U.S. special mission deputies to compensation.

Title III: Economic Support Fund and Other Programs - Authorizes appropriations for Economic Support Fund programs for 1982. Repeals provisions earmarking funds for certain economic support programs.

Authorizes appropriations for peacekeeping operations for fiscal year 1982. Removes the limitations on emergency transfers of economic support funds to peacekeeping operations when necessary for U.S. security. Repeals the requirement that potentially harmful herbicides used in international narcotics control programs to eradicate marijuana must be used with another substance that will warn potential users of the herbicide's presence. Authorizes appropriations for international narcotics control for fiscal year 1982.

Title IV: Military Sales and Related Programs - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to authorize the waiver of reimbursement for certain nonrecurring research and development costs for sales of defense equipment that would advance U.S. standardization with the armed forces of Japan, Australia, or New Zealand. Eliminates such a waiver provision for foreign procurement in the United States under coproduction arrangements.

Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for foreign military sales credit and guaranty programs. Sets the ceilings on total principal amounts of foreign military sales credits and guarantees. Sets the minimum allocation to Israel of the foreign military sales credit for fiscal year 1982. Deletes the provision which earmarked certain funds for relocating Israeli troops from the Sinai. Makes the provision for repayment by Israel of funds for procuring defense articles and services applicable to fiscal year 1982. Sets certain repayment terms for foreign military sales loans to Egypt and Turkey guaranteed by such Act.

Sets a minimum value on proposed transfers of defense articles and services which would require the President to submit a certification to Congress before consenting to such transfer. Exempts from the certification requirement any such transfer to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), any member of NATO, Japan, Australia, or New Zealand. Increases the threshold for proposed sales of defense articles, services and major equipment which must be included in the Annual Arms Sales Proposal. Extends the time within which the President must report the price and availability estimates of such defense articles, services, and major equipment. Exempts from the certification requirement for letters of offers to make such sales any such letter to NATO, any member of NATO, Japan, Australia, or New Zealand.

Increases the threshold value of commercial exports of defense articles, services, or major equipment which require certification. Eliminates the provision for disapproval of such exports by passage of a concurrent resolution in Congress. Exempts from the certification requirement such exports to NATO, any NATO member, Japan, Australia, or New Zealand.

Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to increase the threshold value of a lease of major defense equipment to a foreign government which must be reported to Congress.

Amends the Arms Export Control Act to eliminate the fee reporting requirements of military sales agents. Includes extraordinary as well as administrative expenses in charges for administrative services under such Act.

Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to establish a Special Defense Acquisition Fund to finance the acquisition of defense articles and services in anticipation of their transfer to eligible foreign countries and international organizations. Requires acquisition of short supply items to be emphasized when compatible with security assistance requirements for transfer of such items.

Prohibits the transfer of any defense articles or services acquired by such Fund to any foreign country or international organization unless authorized by law. Authorizes the temporary use of such defense articles and services by U.S. Armed Forces prior to their transfer if necessary to meet national defense requirements. Authorizes the use of such Fund to pay for the costs related to the acquisition and transfer of such defense articles and services.

Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for military assistance programs for fiscal year 1982. Repeals the requirement that authorizations of military assistance be to specified countries in specified amounts. Increases the ceiling on additions to stockpiles of defense articles in foreign countries for fiscal year 1982.

Authorizes the President to assign military personnel to foreign countries to manage international security assistance programs. Limits the number of such personnel in each such country to the number justified in the Congressional presentation materials for such country unless the appropriate Congressional committees are notified. Eliminates certain limitations on the performance of management functions by such military personnel. Expresses the sense of Congress that training assistance in such countries shall primarily be provided by personnel not assigned to manage international security assistance programs. Requires the entire cost of overseas management of such programs, beginning in fiscal year 1983, to be paid out of military assistance program funding.

Authorizes appropriations for the international military education and training programs for fiscal year 1982.

Authorizes the President to furnish assistance to certain countries which receive or transfer nuclear enrichment equipment, materials or technology if the President certifies to Congress that withholding such assistance would be seriously prejudicial to U.S. nonproliferation objectives or otherwise jeopardize the common defense and security.

Repeals the prohibition against certain forms of military and economic assistance to or for Argentina.

Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to repeal the prohibition against aid to military or paramilitary operations in Angola.

Title V: Authorizations for the Fiscal Year 1983 and Effective Date - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1983 for programs for which appropriations for fiscal year 1982 are authorized by this Act.