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 PUBLIC LAW 101-243—FEB. 14, 1990 104 STAT. 7 Public Law 101-243 101st Congress An Act To authorize certain United States assistance and trade benefits for Panama, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the "Urgent Assistance for Democracy in Panama Act of 1990". Feb. 14, 1990 [H.R. 3952] Urgent Assistance for Democracy in Panama Act of 1990. TITLE I—PANAMA SECIOI. IMMEDIATE UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE. (a) ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS. — (1) AUTHORITY TO USE FUNDS FOR ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE.— (A) IN GENERAL.—The President may use up to $32,000,000 of funds made available for economic assistance progrsims in order to provide economic assistance for Panama for fiscal year 1990 notwithstanding the provisions of law specified in subsection (c) of this section. (B) DEOBLIGATION/REOBLIGATION AUTHORITY.— Funds may be made available for use under subparagraph (A) without regard to the limitation in section 515 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 (Public Law 101-167), that funds deobligated under that section are available for reobligation only for countries within the same general region for which the funds were originally obligated. (C) ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE DEFINED. —As used in subparagraph (A), the term "economic assistance" means assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 and following; relating to development and related economic assistance programs) and Eissistance under chapter 4 of part II of that Act (22 U.S.C. 2346 and following; relating to the economic support fund). (2) AUTHORITY TO USE CERTAIN GUARANTY AUTHORITIES. —The President— (A) may use up to $10,000,000 of the guaranty authority available to carry out section 222 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2182; relating to the housing guaranty program), and (B) may exercise the authorities of section 224 of that Act (22 U.S.C. 2184; relating to the trade credit insurance program for Central America), with respect to Panama for fiscal year 1990 without regard to the provisions of law specified in subsection (c) of this section. (b) LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE. —

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