Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1982

(Measure passed Senate, amended, roll call #383 (57-33))

Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1982 - Title I: Multilateral Economic Assistance - Appropriates fiscal year 1982 funds to the President for the U.S. contributions to the: (1) Inter-American Development Bank; (2) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; (3) International Finance Corporation; (4) International Development Association; (5) Asian Development Bank and the Asian Development Fund; and (6) African Development Fund. Specifies the maximum amount of callable capital stock to which the U.S. Governors of such Banks may subscribe.

Appropriates a specified sum for international organizations and programs. Limits the amount of such funds available to the United Nations Environment Program. Prohibits using such funds to finance the United Nations Institute for Namibia unless such funding will promote a settlement in Namibia.

Title II: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes fiscal year 1982 appropriations to carry out the provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 relating to: (1) agriculture, rural development, and nutrition, (2) voluntary population planning; (3) health programs; (4) education and human resources development, with a prohibition on using such funds for scholarships for South African students; (5) energy and selected development activities; (6) loan allocation (with specified repayment periods for loan recipients based on a country's per capita gross national product); (7) American schools and hospitals abroad; (8) international disaster assistance, with a specified amount earmarked for earthquake relief and reconstruction in southern Italy; (9) the Sahel development program, with a prohibition against using such funds for the African Development Foundation; (10) the Economic Support Fund, with specified sums earmarked for Egypt, Israel, Sudan, Poland, Tunisia, Costa Rica, and Cyprus; (11) peacekeeping operations; (12) the operating expenses of the Agency for International Development; (13) trade and development programs; (14) housing and credit guaranty programs; and (15) international narcotics control.

Appropriates a specified sum to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund.

Limits the amount of the appropriations for voluntary population planning that can be used for the United Nations Fund for Population Activities. Prohibits using any such funds for the World Health Organization's Special Program of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction.

Earmarks a specified amount of the Economic Support Fund appropriations for scholarships for South African students.

Makes certain Polish currencies held by the United States available for use in Poland to serve U.S. interests.

Makes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for the Inter- American Foundation and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), with limitations on OPIC's direct and guaranteed loans.

Appropriates fiscal year 1982 funds for the Peace Corps.

Appropriates fiscal year 1982 funds to the Department of State for migration and refugee assistance. Limits the amount of such funds available for the administrative expenses of the State Department's Office of Refugee Programs.

Title III: Military Assistance - Appropriates fiscal year 1982 funds to the President for: (1) military assistance; (2) international military education and training; (3) foreign military credit sales, with limitations on the amounts of direct and guaranteed loans; and (4) the Special Defense Acquisition Fund.

Title IV: Export-Import Bank of the United States - Authorizes the Export-Import Bank to make expenditures without regard to fiscal year limitations, unless otherwise specified. Prohibits expenditures for nuclear exports to any country, other than a nuclear weapons State, that has detonated a nuclear explosive after enactment of this Act. Specifies limitations on the amounts of direct and guaranteed loans and on administrative expenses.

Title V: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) financing construction of any water or related land resource development project which has not met specified standards; (2) pensions for persons who have served in the armed forces of any recipient country; (3) procurement contracts which do not permit termination for U.S. convenience; (4) dues of any member of the United Nations; (5) the transfer of appropriated funds among international lending organizations; (6) financing nuclear exports for providing nuclear training assistance to foreign nationals; (7) assisting countries to violate human rights; (8) assistance to Mozambique (unless it would further U.S. foreign policy interests), Angola, Cambodia, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, or Syria; (9) obligation under an appropriations account to which they were not appropriated without prior congressional approval; (10) unauthorized publicity purposes within the United States; (11) obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless otherwise permitted; (12) assistance to countries which are more than one year in default on loan payments to the United States; (13) international financial institutions which do not make available to the U.S. representatives information concerning loans or documents; (14) any government which aids or abets international terrorism; (15) assisting the production of commodities for export, if such commodities will likely be in surplus on world markets and will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers; and (16) the obligation of specified funds for programs not justified or in excess of the amount justified without prior congressional notification.

Limits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) obligation during the last month of availability; and (2) representation allowances of the Agency for International Development.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of specified international financial institutions to oppose assistance for the production of export commodities in surplus on world markets and which will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers.